Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 98
He was so hated in his life-time that he took the precaution to build his own tomb.
Who acts: life time · What happens: hate, take, build · To what, where: Beg, precaution, own tomb
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 (life time), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hated | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hated | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 hated | advmod |
| 4 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 time | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 life | punct |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hated | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 took | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 precaution | det |
| 14 | precaution | precaution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 build | mark |
| 16 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tomb | amod |
| 19 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 build | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past · passive | Beg | time | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Beg's life time | the precaution | Beg nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme | |||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | Beg's life time not said here | Beg's own tomb | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tomb=Product |
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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