Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 10

He warned the Maharaja that for several months the Sadhu had touched neither food nor water and he begged his master to destroy the Sadhu before it was too late.

Who acts: Gusai, master, sadhu · What happens: warn, touch, beg, destroy, be · To what, where: Maharaja, master, Sadhu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gusai, master, sadhu), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warned	nsubj
2	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Maharaja	det
4	Maharaja	Maharaja	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 touched	nsubj:pass
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 touched	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 months	case
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 months	amod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 touched	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sadhu	det
10	Sadhu	Sadhu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 touched	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 touched	aux
12	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 warned	ccomp
13	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 food	cc:preconj
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touched	obj
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 water	cc
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 food	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 begged	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begged	nsubj
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 warned	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 begged	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 destroy	mark
23	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begged	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sadhu	det
25	Sadhu	Sadhu	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 destroy	obj
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 late	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 late	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 late	cop
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 late	advmod
30	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 destroy	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	Gusai				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	touch	past · perfect · passive		the Maharaja	month	that obj; the Sadhu nsubj:pass; food nor water obj	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	Gusai	Gusai's master			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic
4	destroy not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gusai's master not said here	the Sadhu			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadhu=Patient
5	is	past	sadhu			late 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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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 10