Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 41
To be rid of his ardent importunities, she bade him build a minaret, two hundred feet high before he aspired to her hand.
Who acts: Musulman · What happens: be, build, aspire · To what, where: minaret
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 (Musulman), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 rid | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rid | cop |
| 3 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 build | advcl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 importunities | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 importunities | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 importunities | amod |
| 7 | importunities | importunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bade | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bade | nsubj |
| 10 | bade | bade | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 build | aux |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bade | obj |
| 12 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 minaret | det |
| 14 | minaret | minaret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 build | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 high | punct |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | compound |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 feet | nummod |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 high | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 build | conj |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 aspired | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 aspired | nsubj |
| 22 | aspired | aspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 high | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 aspired | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | of Musulman's ardent importunities; rid property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | build | past | a minaret | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset minaret=Product | |||||
| 3 | aspire | past | Musulman | to lady's hand | tree rules |
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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