Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 268
They will put you in prison and make your infant son king of Brahmanabad.
Who acts: ministers · What happens: put, make · To what, where: you, prison, infant son king
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 prison | case |
| 6 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 king | nmod:poss |
| 10 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 king | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | compound |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Brahmanabad | case |
| 14 | Brahmanabad | Brahmanabad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 king | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | ministers = minister | you | prison | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in prison=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | ministers = minister not said here | your infant son king of Brahmanabad | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product |
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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