Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 69
Men who spit on a lamp, lit by Almighty God soon find that they have in their folly, set fire to their own beards.”
Who acts: Men, words · What happens: spit, lit, find, have, set · To what, where: lamp, Men, folly, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Men, words), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 spit | nsubj |
| 3 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Men | acl:relcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 lamp | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lamp | det |
| 6 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spit | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lit | punct |
| 8 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Men | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Almighty | case |
| 10 | Almighty | almighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 lit | obl |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Almighty | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 find | advmod |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 folly | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 folly | nmod:poss |
| 19 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 find | conj |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 beards | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 beards | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 beards | amod |
| 26 | beards | beard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 set | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | present | Men | a lamp | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on lamp=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lit | participle | Men not said here | by Almighty God | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present | Men | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | words = word | words's folly | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | set | infinitive | Men not said here | fire | to words's own beards | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |
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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