Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 49
But intending evil as he did, he could not cross the lines which Rama had drawn.
Who acts: Sita · What happens: intend, do, not cross, draw · To what, where: lines
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 intending | cc |
| 2 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cross | advcl |
| 3 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 intending | xcomp |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 did | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cross | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cross | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cross | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 cross | advmod |
| 11 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lines | det |
| 13 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cross | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 drawn | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drawn | aux |
| 17 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lines | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cross | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | gerund | Sita not said here | evil property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Sita | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not cross | could | Sita | the lines | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | ||||
| 4 | draw | past · perfect · passive | the lines | Rama nsubj | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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