Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 38
It was there, too, that Laxman cut off the nose of a female demon called Surpanakha who fell in love with Rama and tried to kill Sita in the hope of winning Rama’s undivided affections.
Who acts: latter, Laxman, female demon, hope · What happens: be, cut off, call, fall, try, kill · To what, where: nose, female demon, love, Sita, hope, undivided affections · 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 (latter, Laxman, female demon, hope), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 there | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 there | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 cut | mark |
| 8 | Laxman | Laxman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | nsubj |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | parataxis |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 nose | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nose | det |
| 12 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 demon | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 demon | det |
| 15 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 demon | amod |
| 16 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nose | nmod |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 demon | acl |
| 18 | Surpanakha | Surpanakha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 demon | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Rama | case |
| 24 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tried | cc |
| 26 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fell | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 kill | mark |
| 28 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 tried | xcomp |
| 29 | Sita | Sita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 kill | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 hope | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hope | det |
| 32 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kill | obl |
| 33 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 34 winning | mark |
| 34 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 hope | acl |
| 35 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 affections | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Rama | case |
| 37 | undivided | undivided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 affections | amod |
| 38 | affections | affection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 winning | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | latter | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut off | past | Laxman | the nose of a female demon | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector nose=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a female demon not said here | Surpanakha xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | a female demon | love | with Rama | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 5 | try | past | a female demon not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | a female demon not said here | Sita | the hope | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sita=Theme | |||
| 7 | win | gerund | the hope not said here | Rama's undivided affections | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Eventuality |
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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