Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 27
Gautama to fulfil his promise went through the most incredible penances in honour of the God Shiva, until the latter asked the rishi what he wanted.
Who acts: Gautama, rishi · What happens: fulfil, go, ask, want, promise, honour · To what, where: promise, incredible penances, rishi, God Shiva · 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 (Gautama, rishi), 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 | Gautama | gautama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 fulfil | mark |
| 3 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Gautama | acl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 promise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fulfil | obj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 penances | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 penances | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 incredible | advmod |
| 10 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 penances | amod |
| 11 | penances | penance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 honour | case |
| 13 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 penances | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Shiva | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Shiva | det |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shiva | compound |
| 17 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 honour | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 asked | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 latter | det |
| 21 | latter | latte | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 asked | advmod |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rishi | det |
| 24 | rishi | rishi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | obj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 wanted | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wanted | nsubj |
| 27 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 asked | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | to-infinitive | Gautama not said here | Gautama's promise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Gautama | the incredible penances in honour of the God Shiva | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through penance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Gautama not said here | the rishi | latte property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent rishi=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | want | past | rishi | what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | promise | Gautama | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | honour | the God Shiva | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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