Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 25
The rishi had killed a cow and the gods to punish him for this fearful sin had withheld the rains.
What happens: kill, punish, withhold · To what, where: rishi, fearful sin
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: 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 | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cow | det |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gods | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gods | det |
| 9 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cow | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 punish | mark |
| 11 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 killed | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 punish | obj |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 withheld | mark |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 sin | det |
| 15 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sin | amod |
| 16 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 withheld | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 withheld | aux |
| 18 | withheld | withhold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 punish | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rains | det |
| 20 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 withheld | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the rishi | a cow and the gods obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer cow=Result | ||||
| 2 | punish | to-infinitive | rishi | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 3 | withhold | past · perfect · passive | this fearful sin | the rains obj | 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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