Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 39
The guilty couple have fled, so we cannot return them, but take the manuscript and the diamond since they are yours.
Who acts: guilty couple, we, hands · What happens: flee, not return, take, be · To what, where: hands, manuscript, yours
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 (guilty couple, we, hands), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 couple | det |
| 2 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 couple | amod |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fled | aux |
| 5 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 return | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 return | advmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 return | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 return | advmod |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fled | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 return | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fled | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 manuscript | det |
| 17 | manuscript | manuscript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 diamond | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 diamond | det |
| 20 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 manuscript | conj |
| 21 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 24 yours | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 yours | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 yours | cop |
| 24 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | present · perfect | the guilty couple | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not return | can | we | hands = hand | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | the guilty couple not said here | the manuscript and the diamond | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manuscript=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | hands = hand | yours | tree rules |
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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