Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 101

He held a summary trial, turned his wife into a stone, painted a black patch on the moon’s face and made a thousand sores come on Indra’s body.

Who acts: Gautama, thousand sores · What happens: hold, turn, paint, make, come · To what, where: summary trial, wife, stone, black patch, face, body

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gautama, thousand sores), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trial	det
4	summary	summary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trial	amod
5	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 painted	punct
14	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 patch	det
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 patch	amod
17	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 painted	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	22 face	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moon	det
20	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 face	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 moon	case
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 painted	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 painted	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thousand	det
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 sores	nummod
27	sores	sore	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 come	nsubj
28	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 made	ccomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 body	case
30	Indra	Indra	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 body	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Indra	case
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hold	past	Gautama	a summary trial		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Theme
2	turn	past	Gautama not said here	Gautama's wife	a stone	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wife=Theme into stone=Trajectory
3	paint	past	Gautama not said here	a black patch	the moon's face	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent patch=Theme on face=Destination
4	make	past	Gautama not said here			tree rules
5	come	present	thousand sores		Indra's body	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on body=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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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 101