Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 42
Sita attracted by the beautiful beast begged Rama to go and kill it and fetch her the hide and the horns.
Who acts: Sita · What happens: attract, beg, go, kill, fetch · To what, where: Sita, Rama, beast, hide
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 (Sita), 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 | Sita | Sita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Sita | acl |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 beast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beast | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beast | amod |
| 6 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 attracted | obl |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begged | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kill | cc |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fetch | cc |
| 15 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fetch | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hide | det |
| 18 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fetch | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 horns | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horns | det |
| 21 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hide | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | participle | Sita not said here | by the beautiful beast | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Sita | Rama | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rama=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sita not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | Sita not said here | beast | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fetch | infinitive | Sita not said here | the hide and the horns | Rama | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary hide=Theme |
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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