Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 17
He plied the old woman with more valuable gifts and for the third time asked her blessing.
Who acts: proverb, woman · What happens: ply, ask, bless · To what, where: old woman, blessing
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 (proverb, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 plied | nsubj |
| 2 | plied | ply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plied | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 gifts | case |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 gifts | amod |
| 8 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gifts | amod |
| 9 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 woman | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 plied | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 17 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ply | past | proverb | the old woman | with more valuable gifts | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient with gift=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | proverb not said here | woman's blessing | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient | |||
| 3 | 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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