Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 47

Learning that Vankhandi was no more, the merchant refused to return to Shikarpur and infinitely firm of purpose, he vowed to sit by the edge of the river and neither to eat nor to drink until the Swami came himself to accept the necklace.

Who acts: merchant, Vankhandi, Swami · What happens: learn, not be, refuse, not return, vow, sit · To what, where: Shikarpur, merchant, necklace

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 (merchant, Vankhandi, Swami), 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	Learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 refused	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 more	mark
3	Vankhandi	Vankhandi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 more	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 more	cop
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Learning	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Learning	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 refused	nsubj
10	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 return	mark
12	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 refused	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Shikarpur	case
14	Shikarpur	Shikarpur	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 return	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 firm	cc
16	infinitely	infinitely	ADV	_	17 firm	advmod
17	firm	firm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Shikarpur	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 purpose	case
19	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 firm	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 vowed	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 vowed	nsubj
22	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 refused	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sit	mark
24	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 vowed	xcomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 edge	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 edge	det
27	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sit	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 river	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 edge	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 eat	cc
32	neither	neither	ADV	_	34 eat	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 eat	mark
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sit	conj
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 drink	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 drink	mark
37	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 eat	conj
38	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 came	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Swami	det
40	Swami	Swami	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 came	nsubj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 drink	advcl
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 came	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 accept	mark
44	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 came	xcomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 necklace	det
46	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 accept	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	learn	gerund	the merchant not said here				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	Vankhandi			more property	tree rules
3	refuse	past	the merchant				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not return	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here		Shikarpur and firm of purpose		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shikarpur=Result
5	vow	past	merchant				tree rules
6	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	merchant not said here			by the edge of the river	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by edge=Location
7	eat	to-infinitive	merchant not said here			neither property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	drink	to-infinitive	merchant not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	come	past	the Swami	merchant			tree rules
10	accept	to-infinitive	the Swami not said here	the necklace			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme

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 47