Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 35

When Jam Nindo had established his power and cleared the land of robbers, he thought he would build a new town, “wherein happiness might remain for ever.”

Who acts: Jam, Samui, happiness · What happens: establish, clear, think, build, remain · To what, where: power, land, new town · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jam, Samui, happiness), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 established	mark
2	Jam	Jam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 established	nsubj
3	Nindo	Nindo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jam	flat
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 established	aux
5	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 thought	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 power	nmod:poss
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 established	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cleared	cc
9	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 established	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cleared	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 robbers	case
13	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 land	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 established	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 build	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 build	aux
19	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thought	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 town	det
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 town	amod
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 build	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 remain	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 remain	punct
25	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	28 remain	advmod
26	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 remain	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 remain	aux
28	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 build	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 ever	case
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 remain	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 build	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 build	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	establish	past · perfect	Jam	Samui's power		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	clear	past	Jam not said here	the land of robbers		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent land=Source
3	think speech: other	past	Samui			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	build	would	Samui	a new town		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Product
5	remain in a quote	might	happiness		wherein property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Makli Hill., sentence 35

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 35