Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 9
There he told his sovereign that a certain sadhu of Muran Jharee had vowed by his austerities to destroy the kingdom.
Who acts: Gusai, austerities · What happens: tell, vow, destroy · To what, where: sovereign, certain sadhu, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gusai, austerities), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 told | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 vowed | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sadhu | det |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sadhu | amod |
| 9 | sadhu | sadhu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Muran | case |
| 11 | Muran | Muran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sadhu | nmod |
| 12 | Jharee | Jharee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Muran | flat |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 vowed | aux |
| 14 | vowed | vow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | ccomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 austerities | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 austerities | nmod:poss |
| 17 | austerities | austerity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 vowed | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 destroy | mark |
| 19 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 vowed | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 kingdom | det |
| 21 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 destroy | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Gusai | Gusai's sovereign | there | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sovereign=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | vow | past · perfect · passive | Gusai's austerities | a certain sadhu of Muran | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | destroy | to-infinitive | Gusai's austerities not said here | the kingdom | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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