Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 18
The others losing in their misery all respect for their leader, let him walk so that his wife, Akbar’s mother, should ride.
Who acts: others, Humayun, wife · What happens: lose, let, walk, ride · To what, where: respect, misery, Humayun
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 (others, Humayun, wife), 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 | 2 others | det |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 let | nsubj |
| 3 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 others | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 misery | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 misery | nmod:poss |
| 6 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 losing | obl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 respect | det |
| 8 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 losing | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 leader | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 leader | nmod:poss |
| 11 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 respect | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 others | punct |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 ride | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ride | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mother | punct |
| 21 | Akbar | Akbar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Akbar | case |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wife | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 ride | aux |
| 26 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 walk | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | the others not said here | all respect | Others's misery | for Others's leader | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the others | Humayun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk | infinitive | Humayun not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ride | should | Humayun's wife and Akbar's mother | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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