Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 80
At the same time each sent word to Vidhya that if he did not depose in favour of her maid-servant he would be beheaded.
Who acts: VIDHYA, maid servant · What happens: send, not depose, behead, favour · To what, where: favour, VIDHYA, maid servant
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 (VIDHYA, maid servant), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 word | det |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Vidhya | case |
| 9 | Vidhya | Vidhya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 depose | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 depose | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 depose | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 depose | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 depose | advmod |
| 15 | depose | depose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 word | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 favour | case |
| 17 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 depose | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 servant | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 servant | nmod:poss |
| 20 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 servant | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 maid | punct |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 favour | nmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 beheaded | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 beheaded | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 26 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 servant | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not depose | past · do-support | VIDHYA | favour of maid's maid servant | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | behead | would · passive | maid's maid servant not said here | VIDHYA | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | favour | maid's maid servant | nom favour «feeling 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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