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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 39

Ravana, King of Ceylon, was the brother of Surpanakha and when his mutilated sister came shrieking to his court, he promised her that she should be avenged.

Who acts: Ravana, mutilated sister · What happens: be, mutilate, come, shriek, promise, avenge · To what, where: brother, court, Rama

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 (Ravana, mutilated sister), 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

nsubjpunctapposcasenmodpunctcopdetcasenmodccmarknmod:possamodnsubjadvclxcompcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjconjiobjmarknsubj:passauxaux:passadvclpunctrootRavanaPROPN,PUNCTKingPROPNofADPCeylonPROPN,PUNCTwasAUXtheDETbrotherNOUNofADPSurpanakhaPROPNandCCONJwhenSCONJhisPRONmutilatedVERBsisterNOUNcameVERBshriekingVERBtoADPhisPRONcourtNOUN,PUNCThePRONpromisedVERBherPRONthatSCONJshePRONshouldAUXbeAUXavengedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1RavanaRavanaPROPNNumber=Sing9 brothernsubj
2,,PUNCT_3 Kingpunct
3KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing1 Ravanaappos
4ofofADP_5 Ceyloncase
5CeylonCeylonPROPNNumber=Sing3 Kingnmod
6,,PUNCT_1 Ravanapunct
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 brothercop
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 brotherdet
9brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
10ofofADP_11 Surpanakhacase
11SurpanakhaSurpanakhaPROPNNumber=Sing9 brothernmod
12andandCCONJ_24 promisedcc
13whenwhenSCONJ_17 camemark
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 sisternmod:poss
15mutilatedmutilateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 sisteramod
16sistersisterNOUNNumber=Sing17 camensubj
17camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 promisedadvcl
18shriekingshriekVERBVerbForm=Ger17 camexcomp
19totoADP_21 courtcase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 courtnmod:poss
21courtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing18 shriekingobl
22,,PUNCT_17 camepunct
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 promisednsubj
24promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 brotherconj
25hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 promisediobj
26thatthatSCONJ_30 avengedmark
27sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 avengednsubj:pass
28shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin30 avengedaux
29bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf30 avengedaux:pass
30avengedavengeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 promisedadvcl
31..PUNCT_9 brotherpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastRavanathe brotherof Surpanakhatree rules
2mutilateparticiplevn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3comepastSurpanakha's mutilated sistertree rules
4shriekgerundSurpanakha's mutilated sister not said hereSurpanakha's courtvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to court=Recipient
5promise speech: promisepastRavanaRamavn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6avengeshould · passiveRamatree 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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