Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 70
They got back their good spirits and instead of cursing poor Magadha, they blessed her from the bottom of their hearts.
Who acts: newcomers · What happens: get back, curse, bless · To what, where: good spirits, poor Magadha, Magadha, bottom
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 (newcomers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spirits | amod |
| 6 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cursing | cc |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 cursing | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 instead | fixed |
| 10 | cursing | curse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 got | conj |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Magadha | amod |
| 12 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cursing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blessed | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 blessed | nsubj |
| 15 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 blessed | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 bottom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bottom | det |
| 19 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blessed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hearts | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bottom | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | newcomers = newcomer | newcomers's good spirits | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | curse | gerund | newcomers = newcomer not said here | poor Magadha | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magadha=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bless | past | newcomers = newcomer | Magadha | the bottom of newcomers's hearts | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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