Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 41
Nevertheless, if you are bent on war, we shall accept your challenge.
Who acts: we, your · What happens: bend, accept, challenge · To what, where: you, war, challenge
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, your), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 12 accept | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 bent | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bent | aux:pass |
| 6 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 accept | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bent | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 accept | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 accept | aux |
| 12 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 challenge | nmod:poss |
| 14 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accept | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | you | war | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on war=Location | ||||
| 2 | accept | shall | we | your challenge | nevertheless property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | |||
| 3 | challenge | your | nom challenge «state 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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