Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 19
In it he told his debtor that he cancelled his debt and asked him to take his dog back free of incumbrances.
Who acts: bania · What happens: tell, cancel, ask, take back · To what, where: debtor, debt, bania, dog · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 debtor | nmod:poss |
| 6 | debtor | debtor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 cancelled | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cancelled | nsubj |
| 9 | cancelled | cancel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 debt | nmod:poss |
| 11 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cancelled | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dog | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 20 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 take | csubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 incumbrances | case |
| 22 | incumbrances | incumbrance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 free | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | bania | bania's debtor | in dog | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent debtor=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cancel | past | bania | bania's debt | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | bania not said here | bania | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take back not said to happen | to-infinitive | bania not said here | bania's dog | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination |
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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