Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 44

“If you stay inside these two lines,” he said to his wife, “no harm can come to you.

Who acts: wife, Sita, harm · What happens: stay, say, come · To what, where: two lines, wife · 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 (wife, Sita, harm), 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	_	12 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 stay	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 lines	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 lines	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 lines	nummod
8	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 wife	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 harm	det
19	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 come	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	stay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Sita's wife = wife		this two lines	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside line=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Sita	Sita's wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
3	come in a quote	can	no harm	Sita's wife = wife		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location

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 44

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Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 44