Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 252
Your city will be destroyed and you will perish with it so suddenly, that you will not have time to give even a handful of grain in charity!”
Who acts: you · What happens: destroy, perish, not have, give · To what, where: city, handful, charity
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 (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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 city | nmod:poss |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destroyed | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 destroyed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 5 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 perish | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 perish | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 perish | aux |
| 9 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 destroyed | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 perish | obl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 suddenly | advmod |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 perish | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 perish | conj |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 give | mark |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 time | acl |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 handful | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 handful | det |
| 25 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 grain | case |
| 27 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 handful | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 charity | case |
| 29 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 handful | nmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 destroyed | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | future · passive | Your city | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | perish | future | you | with city; suddenly property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not have | future | you | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | you not said here | a handful of grain | charity | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme |
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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