Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 26
The neighbours going in a body to the guilty rishi dilated on the sin that he had committed, until they had extracted from him a promise that he would by his austerities obtain water for their crops.
Who acts: neighbours, sin, promise · What happens: go, dilate, commit, extract, obtain · To what, where: body, guilty rishi, sin, promise, water, neighbours
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 (neighbours, sin, promise), 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 neighbours | det |
| 2 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 neighbours | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 body | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 body | det |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 rishi | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rishi | det |
| 9 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rishi | amod |
| 10 | rishi | rishi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 11 | dilated | dilate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rishi | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 sin | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sin | det |
| 14 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dilated | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 committed | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 committed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 committed | aux |
| 18 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 sin | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 extracted | punct |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 extracted | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 extracted | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 extracted | aux |
| 23 | extracted | extract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 committed | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 extracted | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 promise | det |
| 27 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 extracted | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 would | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 would | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 obtain | aux |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 austerities | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 austerities | nmod:poss |
| 33 | austerities | austerity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 would | obl |
| 34 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 promise | acl |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 obtain | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 crops | case |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 crops | nmod:poss |
| 38 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 obtain | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 neighbours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | the neighbours not said here | a body | to the guilty rishi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rishi=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dilate | participle | the guilty rishi not said here | the sin | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | commit | past · perfect | sin | the sin not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | extract | past · perfect | neighbours = neighbour | a promise | from sin | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | obtain | would | a promise not said here | water | for neighbours's crops | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent water=Theme for crop=Asset |
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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