Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 46
In spite of her former implied promise she still refused to wed a circumcised barbarian.
Who acts: lady · What happens: imply, refuse, not wed, circumcise, spite, promise · To what, where: former implied promise, circumcised barbarian, spite
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 promise | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 promise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 promise | amod |
| 6 | implied | imply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 promise | amod |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spite | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 refused | nsubj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 refused | advmod |
| 10 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 promise | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 wed | mark |
| 12 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 refused | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 barbarian | det |
| 14 | circumcised | circumcise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 barbarian | amod |
| 15 | barbarian | barbarian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imply | participle | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | refuse | past | lady | lady's former implied promise not said here | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not wed | to-infinitive | lady not said here | a circumcised barbarian | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barbarian=Patient | ||||
| 4 | circumcise | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | spite | lady's former implied promise | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | promise | lady | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/14/46/