Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 106
The rishi turned his sores into eyes, but told him that, as he had behaved in a manner unbecoming a god, he never would be worshipped again.
Who acts: rishi, manner · What happens: turn, tell, behave, unbecom, not worshipp · To what, where: sores, eyes, rishi, manner, god · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rishi, manner), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rishi | det |
| 2 | rishi | rishi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sores | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sores | sore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | ADV | _ | 10 told | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 behaved | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 behaved | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 behaved | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 behaved | aux |
| 17 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 told | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 manner | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 manner | det |
| 20 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 behaved | obl |
| 21 | unbecoming | unbecom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 manner | acl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 god | det |
| 23 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 unbecoming | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 worshipped | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 worshipped | nsubj |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 worshipped | advmod |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 worshipped | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 worshipped | aux:pass |
| 29 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 behaved | conj |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 worshipped | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the rishi | rishi's sores | eyes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sore=Theme into eye=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the rishi not said here | rishi | that property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | behave | past · perfect | rishi | a manner | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | unbecom | gerund | a manner not said here | a god | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not worshipp | would · passive | rishi | again | 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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