Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 12
The bania abused and beat it for not having guarded him against the robbers.
Who acts: bania · What happens: abuse, beat, not guard · To what, where: dog, bania
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bania), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bania | det |
| 2 | bania | bania | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abused | nsubj |
| 3 | abused | abuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beat | cc |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 abused | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 guarded | mark |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 guarded | advmod |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 guarded | aux |
| 10 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 beat | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 guarded | obj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 robbers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 robbers | det |
| 14 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 guarded | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 abused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abuse | past | the bania | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beat | past | the bania not said here | dog | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not guard | gerund · perfect | the bania not said here | bania | against the robbers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary against robber=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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