Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 93
But the proud king’s heart was as hard as stone and although he heard the full tale of Shah Makai’s courtship, he refused to give his daughter to one who was not a Hindu, but a Mleccha.
Who acts: heart, king, courtship · What happens: be, hear, refuse, not give, not be, tell · To what, where: full tale, daughter, Hindu · 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 (heart, king, courtship), 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 hard | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hard | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 hard | advmod |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 stone | case |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hard | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 refused | cc |
| 13 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 15 heard | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 refused | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tale | det |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tale | amod |
| 18 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 courtship | case |
| 20 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 courtship | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Makai | Makai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Shah | flat |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Shah | case |
| 23 | courtship | courtship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tale | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 refused | nsubj |
| 26 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 give | mark |
| 28 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 refused | xcomp |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 give | iobj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 give | obl |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 Hindu | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 Hindu | cop |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 Hindu | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 Hindu | det |
| 37 | Hindu | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 one | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Mleccha | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 Mleccha | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 Mleccha | det |
| 41 | Mleccha | Mleccha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hard | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the proud king's heart | as stone; a Mleccha obl; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | king | the full tale of Shah's courtship | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | refuse | past | king | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not give | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's daughter | to one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to one=Recipient | |||
| 5 | not is a | past | a Hindu | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | tell | Shah's courtship | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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