Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 50
But poor Magadha, who had no dinner to give them, had not the heart to go to the door and welcome them; so she just stayed inside and prayed to the God Krishna.
Who acts: poor Magadha, Magadha · What happens: have, give, go, welcome, stay, pray · To what, where: dinner, heart, alms, door
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 (poor Magadha, Magadha), 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 | _ | 6 had | cc |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Magadha | amod |
| 3 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 dinner | det |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | ccomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heart | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 heart | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heart | det |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 heart | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 welcome | cc |
| 23 | welcome | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 welcome | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 stayed | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 stayed | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stayed | nsubj |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 29 stayed | advmod |
| 29 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | parataxis |
| 30 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 29 stayed | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 prayed | cc |
| 32 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 stayed | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Krishna | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Krishna | det |
| 35 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Krishna | compound |
| 36 | Krishna | Krishna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 prayed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | poor Magadha | no dinner | who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | poor Magadha not said here | the heart | alms = alm | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | poor Magadha not said here | the heart not said here | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | welcome | present | poor Magadha not said here | alms = alm | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stay | past | Magadha | inside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pray | past | Magadha not said here | to the God Krishna | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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