Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 77
For the Brahman, who had said he was her brother was none other than Shri Krishna himself and his two so called kinsmen were his two friends Uddhav and Akrur; while the two maid-servants were Shri Krishna’s queens Rukmani and Satyabhama.
Who acts: Brahman, two maid servants · What happens: say, be, call · To what, where: Shri queens, none, two kinsmen, two friends · 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 (Brahman, two maid servants), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 Brahman | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Brahman | det |
| 3 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 Brahman | acl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 none | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 none | cop |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 none | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 none | cop |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 none | amod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 Krishna | case |
| 16 | Shri | Shri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Krishna | compound |
| 17 | Krishna | Krishna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 other | obl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 friends | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kinsmen | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 kinsmen | nummod |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 called | advmod |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 kinsmen | acl |
| 24 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 himself | conj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 friends | cop |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friends | nmod:poss |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 friends | nummod |
| 28 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Krishna | acl:relcl |
| 29 | Uddhav | Uddhav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 friends | appos |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Akrur | cc |
| 31 | Akrur | Akrur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Uddhav | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 queens | punct |
| 33 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 43 queens | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 servants | det |
| 35 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 servants | nummod |
| 36 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 servants | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 maid | punct |
| 38 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Shri | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 Shri | cop |
| 40 | Shri | Shri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 queens | compound |
| 41 | Krishna | Krishna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Shri | flat |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 Shri | case |
| 43 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obl |
| 44 | Rukmani | Rukmani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 queens | appos |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 Satyabhama | cc |
| 46 | Satyabhama | Satyabhama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Rukmani | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the Brahman | Shri queens | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Brahman | none | Magadha's brother nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | participle | Brahman's two kinsmen not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Brahman | Brahman's two friends | Uddhav and Akrur appos | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | the two maid servants | 's Shri | tree rules |
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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