Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 6
Before leaving it, he bade his hound serve its new master as faithfully as it had served him.
Who acts: hillman, hound · What happens: leave, bade, serve · To what, where: dog, new master
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 (hillman, hound), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 leaving | mark |
| 2 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bade | advcl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leaving | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaving | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | nsubj |
| 6 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hound | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 serve | nsubj |
| 9 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bade | ccomp |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 master | amod |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 serve | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 faithfully | advmod |
| 14 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 18 served | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 served | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 served | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 served | aux |
| 18 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 serve | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 served | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | hillman not said here | dog | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | hillman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | serve | infinitive | hillman's hound | dog's new master | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | serve | past · perfect · passive | dog | hillman obj; faithfully property | 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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