Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 90

She asked him who he was; and learning that he had broken in the lion for love of her, she vowed that she would wed him and no other.

Who acts: Straightway, king · What happens: ask, learn, break, vow, wed, love · To what, where: king, Straightway · 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 (Straightway, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 asked	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 who	acl:relcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 learning	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 learning	cc
9	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 asked	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 broken	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 broken	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 broken	aux
13	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 learning	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 lion	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lion	det
16	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broken	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 love	case
18	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broken	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 love	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 vowed	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 vowed	nsubj
23	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 wed	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wed	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 wed	aux
27	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 vowed	ccomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wed	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 other	cc
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 vowed	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Straightway		king	who obj	tree rules
2	learn	gerund	Straightway not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	break	past · perfect	king			in the lion; for love of Straightway	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lion=Location
4	vow	past	Straightway				tree rules
5	wed	would	Straightway	king			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	love			Straightway			nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 90

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 90