Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 88
Then he heard that she had vowed not to marry anyone, unless he could tame and mount a lion.
Who acts: king · What happens: hear, vow, not marry, tame, mount · To what, where: Straightway, anyone, lion · 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 (king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 vowed | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 vowed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vowed | aux |
| 7 | vowed | vow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 marry | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 marry | mark |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 vowed | xcomp |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 marry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tame | punct |
| 13 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 16 tame | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tame | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tame | aux |
| 16 | tame | tame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 marry | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mount | cc |
| 18 | mount | mount | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 tame | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mount | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | king | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | vow | past · perfect · passive | Straightway | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | anyone | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | |||||
| 4 | tame a condition, not said to happen | could | king | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | mount | infinitive | king not said here | a lion | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient |
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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