Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 38
Captain Pauk Wales threw himself at the Swami’s feet and promised never more to interfere with his holy island.
Who acts: Captain · What happens: throw, promise, interfere · To what, where: Wales, feet, more
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 (Captain), 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 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | Pauk | Pauk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wales | compound |
| 3 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Captain | conj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 threw | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Swami | det |
| 8 | Swami | Swami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Swami | case |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 promised | cc |
| 12 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 promised | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 interfere | mark |
| 16 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 promised | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 island | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 island | nmod:poss |
| 19 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 island | amod |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 interfere | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Captain and Pauk Wales | Wales | the Swami's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | Captain and Pauk Wales not said here | more | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent more=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | interfere not said to happen | to-infinitive | Captain and Pauk Wales not said here | with Swami's holy island | 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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