Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 264
Unless you act at once this palace of yours is certain to become your prison.
Who acts: you, palace · What happens: act, be, become · To what, where: prison
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, palace), 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 | Unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 3 act | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 act | nsubj |
| 3 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 certain | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 act | obl |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 certain | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 yours | case |
| 9 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 certain | cop |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 become | mark |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 certain | xcomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 prison | nmod:poss |
| 15 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 become | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | this palace of yours | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | to-infinitive | this palace of yours not said here | your prison | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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