Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 72

To hang them, impale them and throw them under the feet of his elephants was the serious business of his life.

Who acts: you · What happens: hang, impale, throw, be · To what, where: ears, serious business, feet

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 (you), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 hang	mark
2	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 impale	advcl
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hang	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 impale	punct
5	impale	impale	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 impale	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 throw	cc
8	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 impale	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 throw	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 feet	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feet	det
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 business	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 elephants	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 elephants	nmod:poss
15	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feet	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 business	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 business	det
18	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 business	amod
19	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 life	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 business	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 impale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	to-infinitive	you not said here	ears = ear			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	impale	imperative	you not said here	ears = ear			vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	throw	infinitive	you not said here	ears = ear			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is a	past		the serious business	the feet of Isa's elephants	of Isa's life	tree rules

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 72

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Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 72