Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 42

We shall gladly shew you how strong are our arms and how sharp are our swords.”

Who acts: We, strong arms · What happens: shew, be · To what, where: you, strong arms, swords

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, strong arms), 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 shew	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shew	aux
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	4 shew	advmod
4	shew	shew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 shew	obj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 strong	advmod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 arms	amod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 arms	cop
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 arms	nmod:poss
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 swords	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sharp	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 sharp	advmod
13	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 arms	conj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 swords	cop
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 swords	nmod:poss
16	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shew	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shew	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 shew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shew	shall	We	you	gladly property	tree rules
2	is a	present		our strong arms	our nmod:poss	tree rules
3	be					tree rules
4	is a	present	our strong arms	our swords	our nmod:poss	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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 42