Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 88
But efficacious as his spiritual aid may have been in procuring sons for barren women, poor Ghazi remained childless himself.
Who acts: spiritual aid, efficacious · What happens: procure, remain · To what, where: sons
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 (spiritual aid, efficacious), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 efficacious | cc |
| 2 | efficacious | efficacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 procuring | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 aid | nmod:poss |
| 5 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 aid | amod |
| 6 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 procuring | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 procuring | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 procuring | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 procuring | aux |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 procuring | mark |
| 11 | procuring | procure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 efficacious | advcl |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 procuring | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 women | case |
| 14 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 women | amod |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 procuring | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ghazi | punct |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Ghazi | amod |
| 18 | Ghazi | Ghazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 women | nmod |
| 19 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | childless | childless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 remained | xcomp |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 childless | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | procure | may · perfect · progressive | father's spiritual aid | sons | for barren women poor Ghazi | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent son=Theme for woman=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | remain | past | efficacious | childless 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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