Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 55
Muzaffar complained to Makhdum Nuh, who after hearing both sides ordered Salar to keep his promise.
Who acts: Muzaffar, Makhdum, Salar · What happens: complain, hear, order, keep, promise · To what, where: Makhdum, sides, Salar, promise
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 (Muzaffar, Makhdum, Salar), 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 | Muzaffar | Muzaffar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 complained | nsubj |
| 2 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Makhdum | case |
| 4 | Makhdum | Makhdum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 complained | obl |
| 5 | Nuh | Nuh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Makhdum | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ordered | nsubj |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 hearing | mark |
| 9 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ordered | advcl |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 sides | det |
| 11 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hearing | obj |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Makhdum | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Salar | Salar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ordered | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 promise | nmod:poss |
| 17 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | past | Muzaffar | Makhdum | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to makhdum=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | Makhdum not said here | both sides | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | order | past | Makhdum | Salar | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent salar=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | Makhdum not said here | Salar's promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 5 | promise | Salar | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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