Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 57
“O Makhdum, you have done an act not pleasing to God; You have set at nought what God had ordained.
Who acts: act, God · What happens: do, not please, set, ordain · To what, where: Makhdum, God, You, nought
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 (act, God), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Makhdum | discourse |
| 3 | Makhdum | Makhdum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Makhdum | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 act | det |
| 9 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | obj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 pleasing | advmod |
| 11 | pleasing | please | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 act | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 God | case |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pleasing | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | aux |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 done | parataxis |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 nought | case |
| 19 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 set | obl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 ordained | obj |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ordained | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ordained | aux |
| 23 | ordained | ordain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 set | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Makhdum | you nsubj; a act obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not please in a quote | gerund | a act not said here | God | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | set in a quote | present · perfect · passive | You | nought | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at nought=Destination | ||||
| 4 | ordain in a quote | past · perfect | God | what obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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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