Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 95

When Nigar vowed that in spite of her father she would wed the bold Arabian, Raja Neran threw her into a well and had a huge stone put over its mouth.

Who acts: Nigar, Straightway, Raja · What happens: vow, wed, throw, have, put, spite · To what, where: bold Arabian, spite, Straightway, well, huge stone, mouth

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, Straightway, Raja), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 vowed	advmod
2	Nigar	Nigar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 vowed	nsubj
3	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 threw	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 wed	mark
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 spite	case
6	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spite	nmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wed	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wed	aux
12	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 vowed	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Arabian	det
14	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Arabian	amod
15	Arabian	Arabian	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 vowed	punct
17	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 threw	nsubj
18	Neran	Neran	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Raja	flat
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 threw	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 well	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 well	det
23	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 threw	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 stone	det
27	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stone	amod
28	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
29	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 stone	acl
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 mouth	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mouth	nmod:poss
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vow	past	Nigar				tree rules
2	wed	would	Straightway	the bold Arabian	spite of Straightway's father		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arabian=Patient
3	throw	past	Raja	Straightway		into a well result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into well=Result
4	have	past	Raja not said here	a huge stone			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
5	put	participle		a huge stone not said here	stone's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over mouth=Destination
6	spite			Straightway's father			nom spite «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 95

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 95