Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 13
For many months he brought her daily small gifts of food or money; then he summoned up courage to ask again for her blessing.
Who acts: hair, woman · What happens: bring, summon up, ask, gift, bless · To what, where: daily small gifts, courage, food
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, woman), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 months | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 months | amod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | 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 | 9 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gifts | amod |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gifts | amod |
| 9 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 food | case |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gifts | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 money | cc |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 food | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 summoned | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 summoned | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 summoned | nsubj |
| 17 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 summoned | compound:prt |
| 19 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 summoned | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 ask | mark |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 summoned | advcl |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 ask | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 blessing | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 25 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | hair | woman's daily small gifts of food or money | month | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | |||
| 2 | summon up | past | hair | courage | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | hair not said here | again | for woman's blessing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | gift | woman | food or money | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 5 | bless | woman | nom blessing «act 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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