Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 63
“There is no worse sin than to send away Brahmans hungry from your door.”
Who acts: worse sin · What happens: be, send away · To what, where: Brahmans
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 (worse sin), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 sin | det |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 sin | amod |
| 6 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 send | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 send | mark |
| 9 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sin | acl |
| 10 | away | away | ADP | _ | 9 send | compound:prt |
| 11 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 send | obj |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 send | xcomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 door | nmod:poss |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hungry | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no worse sin | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send away in a quote | to-infinitive | no worse sin not said here | Brahmans | hungry property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brahman=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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