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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 15

After trying in vain to establish himself at Sehwan and Bukkur, he started for Bikanir, only to learn that the Chief meant to hand him over to his enemy.

Who acts: Humayun, Chief · What happens: try, establish, start, learn, mean, hand over · To what, where: vain, Humayun, Sehwan, enemy

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Humayun, Chief), 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

markadvclcaseoblmarkxcompobjcaseoblccconjpunctnsubjcaseoblpunctadvmodmarkconjmarkdetnsubjadvclmarkxcompobjcompound:prtcasenmod:possoblpunctrootAfterSCONJtryingVERBinADPvainADJtoPARTestablishVERBhimselfPRONatADPSehwanPROPNandCCONJBukkurPROPN,PUNCThePRONstartedVERBforADPBikanirPROPN,PUNCTonlyADVtoPARTlearnVERBthatSCONJtheDETChiefPROPNmeantVERBtoPARThandVERBhimPRONoverADPtoADPhisPRONenemyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_2 tryingmark
2tryingtryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 startedadvcl
3ininADP_4 vaincase
4vainvainADJDegree=Pos2 tryingobl
5totoPART_6 establishmark
6establishestablishVERBVerbForm=Inf2 tryingxcomp
7himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes6 establishobj
8atatADP_9 Sehwancase
9SehwanSehwanPROPNNumber=Sing6 establishobl
10andandCCONJ_11 Bukkurcc
11BukkurBukkurPROPNNumber=Sing9 Sehwanconj
12,,PUNCT_2 tryingpunct
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 startednsubj
14startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15forforADP_16 Bikanircase
16BikanirBikanirPROPNNumber=Sing14 startedobl
17,,PUNCT_20 learnpunct
18onlyonlyADV_20 learnadvmod
19totoPART_20 learnmark
20learnlearnVERBVerbForm=Inf14 startedconj
21thatthatSCONJ_24 meantmark
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Chiefdet
23ChiefChiefPROPNNumber=Sing24 meantnsubj
24meantmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 learnadvcl
25totoPART_26 handmark
26handhandVERBVerbForm=Inf24 meantxcomp
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 handobj
28overoverADP_26 handcompound:prt
29totoADP_31 enemycase
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 enemynmod:poss
31enemyenemyNOUNNumber=Sing26 handobl
32..PUNCT_14 startedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1trygerundHumayun not said herevainvn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2establish not said to happento-infinitiveHumayun not said hereHumayunSehwan and Bukkurvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3startpastHumayunfor Bikanirvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4learnto-infinitiveHumayun not said herevn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5meanpastthe Chiefvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6hand over not said to happento-infinitivethe Chief not said hereHumayunHumayun's enemyvn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to enemy=Destination

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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