Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 278
For all their respect for the late king and their dislike of Dalu Rai, they disliked still more the coronation of a newly born infant with all the dangers of a long regency.
Who acts: nobles · What happens: dislike, bear, respect · To what, where: more coronation, Dalu
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 (nobles), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 respect | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 respect | det:predet |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 respect | nmod:poss |
| 4 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 disliked | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 7 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 respect | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dislike | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dislike | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dislike | dislike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Dalu | case |
| 13 | Dalu | Dalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dislike | nmod |
| 14 | Rai | Rai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Dalu | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 respect | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 disliked | nsubj |
| 17 | disliked | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 coronation | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 coronation | amod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coronation | det |
| 21 | coronation | coronation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 disliked | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 a | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 coronation | appos |
| 24 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 25 born | advmod |
| 25 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 a | acl |
| 26 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 born | xcomp |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 dangers | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 dangers | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dangers | det |
| 30 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 infant | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 regency | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 regency | det |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 regency | amod |
| 34 | regency | regency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dangers | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 disliked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dislike | past | nobles = noble | the more coronation | for nobles's respect for the late king and nobles's dislike of Dalu | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer coronation=Stimulus for respect=Attribute | |||
| 2 | bear | participle | infant, newly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | respect | nobles = noble | for the late king and nobles's dislike of Dalu | nom respect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | |||||
| 4 | dislike | nobles = noble | Dalu | nom dislike «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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