Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 28

“I want some of the Ganges water for the country side,” replied the sage and he told Shiva the story of the sin which he had inadvertently committed.

Who acts: sage, Gautama · What happens: want, reply, tell, have · To what, where: some, story, Shiva, sin · 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 (sage, Gautama), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 replied	ccomp
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 want	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
7	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 water	compound
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 some	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 side	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 side	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 side	compound
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
15	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sage	det
17	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 replied	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 replied	conj
21	Shiva	Shiva	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 told	iobj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 story	det
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 sin	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sin	det
26	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 story	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 had	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sin	acl:relcl
30	inadvertently	inadvertently	ADV	_	31 committed	advmod
31	committed	committed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 had	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	the sage = sage	some of the Ganges water		for the country side	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot some=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	the sage				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	Gautama	the story of the sin	Shiva		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent shiva=Recipient story=Topic
4	have	past	Gautama	the sin		committed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 28