Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 42
When they thought him dead, they should put a pat of butter on his forehead.
Who acts: disciples · What happens: think, put, pat · To what, where: Swami, pat, forehead, butter
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 (disciples), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pat | det |
| 11 | pat | pat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 butter | case |
| 13 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pat | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 forehead | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 16 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | disciples = disciple | Swami | dead property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | should | disciples = disciple | a pat of butter | Swami's forehead | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pat=Theme on forehead=Destination | |||
| 3 | pat | butter | nom pat «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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