Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 48
She did not know what to do, so she prayed all that night and all next morning to the God Krishna to help her honour the Brahmans when they came.
Who acts: Magadha, alms · What happens: not know, do, pray, help, honour, come · To what, where: Magadha, Brahmans · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Magadha, alms), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prayed | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 prayed | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 prayed | nsubj |
| 11 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 night | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prayed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 morning | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 morning | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 morning | amod |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 night | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 God | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 God | det |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 prayed | obl |
| 22 | Krishna | Krishna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 God | flat |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 help | mark |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 prayed | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 help | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Brahmans | det |
| 28 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 honour | obj |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 came | advmod |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 honour | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Magadha | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pray | past | Magadha | night | to the God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | Magadha not said here | Magadha | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | honour | infinitive | Magadha not said here | the Brahmans | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | past | alms = alm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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