Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 31
But Bhamini instead of taking Magadha’s part, thought it a good chance to play a cruel practical joke on her.
Who acts: Bhamini · What happens: take, think, play · To what, where: part, cruel practical joke
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bhamini), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 2 | Bhamini | Bhamini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 taking | mark |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 instead | fixed |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Bhamini | acl |
| 6 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Magadha | case |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bhamini | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chance | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chance | amod |
| 14 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 play | mark |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 chance | acl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 joke | det |
| 18 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 joke | amod |
| 19 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 joke | amod |
| 20 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 play | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 joke | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Bhamini not said here | Magadha's part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Bhamini | part | a good chance obj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme chance=Attribute | |||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | Bhamini not said here | a cruel practical joke | on Magadha | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=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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