Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 266
In your stead the ministers were to put your son if you had one, and if not, your distant cousin.
Who acts: ministers, you · What happens: put, have · To what, where: son, stead, one
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 (ministers, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 stead | case |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stead | nmod:poss |
| 3 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ministers | det |
| 5 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cousin | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cousin | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 not | mark |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 cousin | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 not | punct |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 21 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cousin | amod |
| 22 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the ministers | your son | your stead | your distant cousin obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme in stead=Destination | ||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | you | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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