Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 44
They should then throw his corpse into the Indus river.
Who acts: disciples · What happens: throw · To what, where: corpse, Indus river
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 throw | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 throw | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 throw | advmod |
| 4 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 corpse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 9 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 river | compound |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | should | disciples = disciple | Swami's corpse | then | into the Indus river result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer corpse=Theme into river=Result |
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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