Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 91
Shah Makai sought an audience of Neran Raja and asked for his daughter’s hand.
Who acts: Shah · What happens: seek, ask · To what, where: audience
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 (Shah), 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 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | Makai | Makai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shah | flat |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 audience | det |
| 5 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sought | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Neran | case |
| 7 | Neran | Neran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 audience | nmod |
| 8 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Neran | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 daughter | case |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Shah | a audience of Neran | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audience=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Shah not said here | for Neran's daughter's hand | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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