Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 54
Giving up the things of this world, he became an anchorite and taught the precepts of Islam until death overtook him.
Who acts: love, death · What happens: give up, become, teach, overtake · To what, where: things, anchorite, precepts, love
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 (love, death), 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 | Giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 became | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Giving | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 things | det |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Giving | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 things | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Giving | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 anchorite | det |
| 12 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taught | cc |
| 14 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 became | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 precepts | det |
| 16 | precepts | precept | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 taught | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Islam | case |
| 18 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 precepts | nmod |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 overtook | mark |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 overtook | nsubj |
| 21 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taught | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 overtook | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | gerund | love not said here | the things of this world | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Source | ||||
| 2 | become | past | love | a anchorite | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | love not said here | the precepts of Islam | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent precept=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | overtake | past | death | love | 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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