Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 7
While he was still a young man his reputation for holiness spread far and wide; but it aroused the envy and malice of another anchorite of Muran Jharee named Gusai Sanyasi Sadhu.
Who acts: Nepal, reputation, envy · What happens: be, spread, arouse, name, repute · To what, where: young man, Gusai Sanyasi
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 (Nepal, reputation, envy), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 man | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 man | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spread | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 reputation | nmod:poss |
| 9 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spread | nsubj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 holiness | case |
| 11 | holiness | holiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reputation | nmod |
| 12 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 spread | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wide | cc |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 far | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 aroused | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 aroused | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 aroused | nsubj |
| 19 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spread | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 envy | det |
| 21 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 named | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 malice | cc |
| 23 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 envy | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 anchorite | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 anchorite | det |
| 26 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 malice | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Muran | case |
| 28 | Muran | Muran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 anchorite | nmod |
| 29 | Jharee | Jharee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Muran | flat |
| 30 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 aroused | parataxis |
| 31 | Gusai | Gusai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Sanyasi | compound |
| 32 | Sanyasi | Sanyasi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 named | obl |
| 33 | Sadhu | Sadhu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Sanyasi | flat |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Nepal | a young man | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spread | present | Nepal's reputation for holiness | far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | arouse | past | reputation | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | name | past | the envy and malice of another anchorite of Muran | Gusai Sanyasi | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | repute | Nepal | for holiness | nom reputation «state transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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