Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 265

The late king was angry with you, as you know, and before he died, he had engraved as his will on a brass plate that you were never to sit on the throne.

Who acts: late king, you, king · What happens: be, know, die, engrave, not sit · To what, where: brass plate, throne · 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 (late king, you, king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 angry	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 know	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 engraved	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 engraved	cc
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 died	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 died	nsubj
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 engraved	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 died	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 engraved	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 engraved	aux
20	engraved	engrave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 know	ccomp
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 will	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 will	nmod:poss
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 engraved	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 plate	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 plate	det
26	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plate	compound
27	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 engraved	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 sit	obj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 sit	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sit	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 sit	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sit	mark
33	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 plate	acl:relcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 throne	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 throne	det
36	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sit	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the late king			with you; angry property	tree rules
2	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	die	past	king				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	engrave	past · perfect	king		a brass plate		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on plate=Destination
5	not sit	past	you	a brass plate	the throne		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent that=Theme on throne=Location

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 265

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 265