Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 91
As they went they called down the most frightful curses on her, so that she died soon afterwards and went straight to Hell.
Who acts: guests, dinner · What happens: go, call down, die · To what, where: frightful curses, guests, Hell
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 (guests, dinner), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 died | advcl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 called | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 curses | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 frightful | advmod |
| 9 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 curses | amod |
| 10 | curses | curse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 died | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 died | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 died | nsubj |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 died | advmod |
| 19 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 17 died | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 died | conj |
| 22 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 24 Hell | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Hell | case |
| 24 | Hell | Hell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | guests = guest | the frightful curses | on dinner | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | call down speech: assert | participle · passive | guests = guest | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | die | past | dinner | afterwards, soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | go | past | dinner not said here | Hell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hell=Initial_Location |
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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