Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 76
She scorned to ride camels or horses, as other well born Hindu ladies did.
Who acts: daughter, other born Hindu ladies · What happens: scorn, ride, bear, do · To what, where: camels
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 (daughter, other born Hindu ladies), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 scorned | nsubj |
| 2 | scorned | scorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 ride | mark |
| 4 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 scorned | xcomp |
| 5 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ride | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 horses | cc |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 camels | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 did | mark |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ladies | amod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 born | advmod |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ladies | amod |
| 13 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ladies | amod |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 scorned | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scorned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scorn | past | daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | camels or horses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | do | past | other born Hindu ladies | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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