Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 92
Nigar, too, pressed her father to give his consent to the marriage.
Who acts: Nigar, hand · What happens: press, give, consent · To what, where: father, consent, marriage
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 (Nigar, hand), 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 | Nigar | Nigar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pressed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nigar | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 pressed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 too | punct |
| 5 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pressed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pressed | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 consent | nmod:poss |
| 11 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 marriage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 marriage | det |
| 14 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | Nigar | Straightway's father | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent father=Result | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | Nigar not said here | hand's consent | the marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Theme to marriage=Recipient | |||
| 3 | consent | hand | nom consent «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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