Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 191
If you bid me I will give my old master a sound beating.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bid, give · To what, where: me, old master
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 bid | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bid | nsubj |
| 3 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bid | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 master | amod |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 beating | det |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beating | compound |
| 13 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid a condition, not said to happen | past | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | my old master | a sound beating obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent master=Recipient beating=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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