Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 66

“To-morrow,” said the old cow, “our master will put a ring through your nose and yoking you to a plough will make you work for the rest of your life.”

Who acts: old cow, master, yoking, morrow · What happens: say, put, yoke, make, work · To what, where: morrow, ring, nose · 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 (old cow, master, yoking, morrow), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 morrow	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morrow	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 morrow	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cow	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cow	amod
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 master	nmod:poss
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 put	aux
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cow	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ring	det
18	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 nose	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nose	nmod:poss
21	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
23	yoking	yoke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 make	csubj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 yoking	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 plough	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 plough	det
27	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yoking	obl
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 put	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 make	obj
31	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 make	xcomp
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 rest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rest	det
34	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 work	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 life	case
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 life	nmod:poss
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rest	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old cow		morrow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to morrow=Recipient
2	put in a quote	future	our master	a ring		your nose		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ring=Theme through nose=Destination
3	yoke in a quote	gerund		morrow			to a plough	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to plough=Co-Patient
4	make in a quote	future	yoking	morrow				tree rules
5	work in a quote	infinitive	morrow not said here				for the rest of your life	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rest=Beneficiary

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 66

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 66