Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 62
As a punishment for burning up another god’s head, he was condemned always to see it dancing before his eyes.
Who acts: punishment, head · What happens: burn up, condemn, see, dance · To what, where: head, Brahmadev, eyes
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 (punishment, head), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 punishment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 punishment | det |
| 3 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 condemned | obl |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 burning | mark |
| 5 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 punishment | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 burning | compound:prt |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 god | det |
| 8 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 god | case |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burning | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 punishment | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 condemned | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 condemned | aux:pass |
| 14 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 condemned | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 condemned | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 see | xcomp |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dancing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 condemned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn up | gerund | a punishment not said here | another god's head | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | condemn | past · passive | Brahmadev | as a punishment; always property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as punishment=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | head | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dance | gerund | head not said here | Brahmadev's eyes | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=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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