Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 38
The lady would not join Islam and he could not, if he would, become a Hindu.
Who acts: lady · What happens: not join, become · To what, where: Islam
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 (lady), 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 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 join | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 join | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 join | advmod |
| 5 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 join | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 could | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 join | conj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 could | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 become | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 would | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 would | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 become | aux |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 would | punct |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 join | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Hindu | det |
| 18 | Hindu | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 become | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 join | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not join | would | the lady | Islam | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent islam=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | would | the lady not said here | a Hindu xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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