Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 78
Magadha threw herself at Shri Krishna’s feet; but the great God raised her and said “The ceremonies you performed in my honour were all wrong.
Who acts: Magadha, great God, you, ceremonies, my · What happens: throw, raise, say, perform, be, honour · To what, where: Magadha, feet, ceremonies, honour · 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, great God, you, ceremonies), 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 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 threw | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 5 | Shri | Shri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Krishna | Krishna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Shri | flat |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Shri | case |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 raised | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 raised | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 God | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 God | amod |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 raised | nsubj |
| 14 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 raised | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 raised | conj |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 wrong | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ceremonies | det |
| 20 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 wrong | nsubj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 performed | nsubj |
| 22 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ceremonies | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 honour | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 honour | nmod:poss |
| 25 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 performed | obl |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 wrong | cop |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 wrong | advmod |
| 28 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Magadha | Magadha | Shri's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | raise | past | the great God | Magadha | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the great God not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | perform in a quote | past | you | the ceremonies not said here | my honour | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Theme | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | the ceremonies | all, wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | honour in a quote | my | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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