Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 79
She vowed and made public her vow that she would wed no man who feared to saddle and mount a lion.
Who acts: daughter, man · What happens: vow, make, wed, fear, saddle, mount · To what, where: vow, man, lion
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, man), 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 vowed | nsubj |
| 2 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 vowed | conj |
| 5 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 vow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 wed | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wed | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wed | aux |
| 11 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | advcl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wed | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 feared | nsubj |
| 15 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 saddle | mark |
| 17 | saddle | saddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 feared | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mount | cc |
| 19 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 saddle | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lion | det |
| 21 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mount | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past | daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | daughter not said here | daughter's vow | public property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vow=Product | |||
| 3 | wed | would | daughter | no man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fear | past | no man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | saddle | to-infinitive | no man not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | mount | infinitive | no man not said here | a lion | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient | ||||
| 7 | vow | daughter | nom vow «communication transitive»: 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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