Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 267
Now that a son has been born to the princess, think what a handle your enemies will have against you!
Who acts: you, handle · What happens: bear, think, have · To what, where: son · 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 (you, handle), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 think | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 born | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 think | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 15 handle | det |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 handle | det |
| 15 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | nsubj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 handle | nmod |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 think | ccomp |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · perfect · passive | a son | to the princess | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | future | what handle your enemies | against you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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