Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 68
“If the wind were to blow furiously all over the world It could never extinguish the lamp of those accepted by the Most High.
Who acts: wind · What happens: blow, not extinguish, accept · To what, where: lamp, world
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 (wind), 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 blow | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 blow | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blow | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blow | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 blow | mark |
| 7 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 7 blow | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 extinguish | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 extinguish | obl |
| 13 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 extinguish | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 extinguish | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 extinguish | advmod |
| 16 | extinguish | extinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 blow | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lamp | det |
| 18 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 extinguish | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 those | case |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 lamp | nmod |
| 21 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 those | acl |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 High | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 High | det |
| 24 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 High | amod |
| 25 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 accepted | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in a quote | past | the wind | furiously property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not extinguish in a quote | could | wind | the lamp of those | the world | all property | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient | ||
| 3 | accept in a quote | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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