Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 45
The disciples faithfully carried out their master’s wishes and when the pat of butter did not melt on his forehead, they threw his body into the great river.
Who acts: disciples, pat, master · What happens: carry out, not melt, throw, wish, pat · To what, where: wishes, forehead, body, great river, 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, pat, master), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 disciples | det |
| 2 | disciples | disciple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 4 carried | advmod |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 carried | compound:prt |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 master | case |
| 9 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 melt | cc |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 melt | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pat | det |
| 13 | pat | pat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 melt | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 butter | case |
| 15 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pat | nmod |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 melt | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 melt | advmod |
| 18 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 carried | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 forehead | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 21 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 melt | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 threw | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 threw | nsubj |
| 24 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 body | nmod:poss |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 threw | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 river | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 river | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 river | amod |
| 30 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 threw | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | past | the disciples | disciples's master's wishes | faithfully property | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not melt | past · do-support | the pat of butter | Swami's forehead | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | disciples = disciple | Swami's body | into the great river result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer body=Theme into river=Result | |||
| 4 | wish | disciples's master | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | 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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