Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 65

If you want your two pice back, you must sign a document, binding your son never to abide by my advice and always to stand and watch people fighting.”

Who acts: you, people · What happens: want, sign, bind, not abide, stand, watch · To what, where: two pice, document, son, people

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 want	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sign	advcl
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pice	nmod:poss
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pice	nummod
6	pice	pice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	3 want	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 sign	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sign	aux
11	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 document	det
13	document	document	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sign	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 binding	punct
15	binding	bind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sign	advcl
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 binding	obj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 abide	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 abide	mark
20	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 binding	advcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 advice	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 advice	nmod:poss
23	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 abide	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stand	cc
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 stand	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stand	mark
27	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 abide	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 watch	cc
29	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stand	conj
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 watch	obj
31	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 people	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 stand	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your two pice		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pice=Theme
2	sign	must	you	a document		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent document=Destination
3	bind	gerund	you not said here	your son		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	not abide	to-infinitive	you not said here		by my advice	tree rules
5	stand	to-infinitive	you not said here		always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	watch	infinitive	you not said here	people		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
7	fight	gerund	people not said here			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 65

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 65