Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 251
“As a punishment for your cruelty,” he cried, “you will never live to be old.
Who acts: Brahman, you · What happens: cry, not live, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahman, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 punishment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 punishment | det |
| 4 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 cruelty | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cruelty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 punishment | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 punishment | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 punishment | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 live | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 live | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 live | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 live | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 live | advmod |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 old | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 old | cop |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 live | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Brahman | as a punishment for your cruelty | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not live in a quote | future | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | old property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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