Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 60
In the meantime, however, Isa Khan had in several actions instilled into Sultan Mahmud Khan a sense of his inferiority and had forced him to sue for peace.
Who acts: Isa, Sultan · What happens: have, instil, force, sue, sense · To what, where: meantime, sense, Isa, inferiority
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 (Isa, Sultan), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meantime | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 had | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | Isa | Isa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 8 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Isa | flat |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 actions | case |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 actions | amod |
| 12 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obl |
| 13 | instilled | instil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 actions | acl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 Sultan | case |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 instilled | obl:agent |
| 16 | Mahmud | Mahmud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sultan | flat |
| 17 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mahmud | flat |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sense | det |
| 19 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 instilled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 inferiority | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 inferiority | nmod:poss |
| 22 | inferiority | inferiority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sense | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 forced | cc |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 forced | aux |
| 25 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 had | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forced | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 sue | mark |
| 28 | sue | sue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 forced | xcomp |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 peace | case |
| 30 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sue | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Isa | the meantime | in several actions; however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | instil | participle · passive | Sultan | a sense of Isa's inferiority | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | force | past · perfect | Isa not said here | Isa | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sue | to-infinitive | Isa not said here | for peace | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sense | Isa's inferiority | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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