Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 48

I only wanted you to build it that you might throw yourself from the top!”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: want, build, throw · To what, where: you, minaret, yourself, top

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 (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 build	mark
6	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 build	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 throw	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 throw	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 throw	aux
11	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 build	advcl
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 throw	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throw	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	I	you		tree rules
2	build not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	minaret		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	throw	might	you	yourself	the top	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme from top=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 48