Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 83

But, because as a child he had torn to pieces a live snake with his bare hands, he was called Haidar Ali or the Ali who tore the “Hai” or snake.

Who acts: child, Haidar · What happens: tear, call, tore · To what, where: live snake, child, Hai · 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 (child, Haidar), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 torn	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 torn	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 torn	mark
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 child	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 torn	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 torn	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 torn	aux
9	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 torn	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 snake	det
13	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 snake	amod
14	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 torn	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 hands	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
17	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hands	amod
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 snake	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 torn	conj
23	Haidar	Haidar	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
24	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Haidar	flat
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 Ali	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Ali	det
27	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Haidar	conj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 tore	nsubj
29	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Haidar	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Hai	det
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 Hai	punct
32	Hai	Hai	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 tore	obj
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 Hai	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 snake	cc
35	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Hai	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 torn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tear	past · perfect	child	a live snake	as a child; to pieces result; with child's bare hands	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent snake=Patient to piece=Result with hand=Instrument
2	call	past · passive		child	Haidar or the Ali xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	tore	past	Haidar or the Ali	the Hai or snake		tree rules

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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Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 83