Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 40
We do not want them nor do we wish for war.
Who acts: We · What happens: not want, wish · To what, where: hands
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | obj |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 wish | cc |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wish | aux |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 war | case |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | We | hands = hand | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | present · do-support | we | for war | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for war=Theme |
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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