Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 40
To carry out this promise, he called in the aid of another demon named Maricha.
Who acts: Ravana · What happens: carry out, call, name · To what, where: promise, aid, demon · 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 (Ravana), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 carry | mark |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 called | advcl |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 carry | compound:prt |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 promise | det |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 aid | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 aid | det |
| 11 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 demon | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 demon | det |
| 14 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aid | nmod |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 demon | acl |
| 16 | Maricha | Maricha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 named | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | to-infinitive | Ravana not said here | this promise | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | call | past | Ravana | the aid of another demon | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | another demon not said here | Maricha xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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