Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 58
You will suffer by having your corpse put in three different places after your death.”
Who acts: You, corpse, your · What happens: suffer, have, put, die · To what, where: corpse, three different places
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, corpse, your), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 suffer | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 suffer | aux |
| 3 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 suffer | advcl |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 corpse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 having | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 places | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 places | nummod |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 places | amod |
| 12 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 death | nmod:poss |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 places | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffer | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | future | You | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | You not said here | your corpse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | participle | your corpse not said here | three different places after your death | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination | ||||
| 4 | die | your | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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