Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 20
Humayun had neither gifts to distribute to his friends nor clothes in which to wrap the baby.
Who acts: Humayun, gifts · What happens: have, distribute, wrap · To what, where: gifts, friends, baby, clothes
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, gifts), 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 | Humayun | Humayun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 gifts | det |
| 4 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 distribute | mark |
| 6 | distribute | distribute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 friends | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 distribute | obl |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 clothes | cc |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 friends | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wrap | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wrap | mark |
| 15 | wrap | wrap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 baby | det |
| 17 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrap | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Humayun | neither gifts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | distribute | to-infinitive | neither gifts not said here | Humayun's friends nor clothes | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | wrap | to-infinitive | neither gifts not said here | the baby | clothes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in which=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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