Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 68
“If he tries, I shall gore him to death.”
Who acts: master, wicked young bull · What happens: try, gore · To what, where: master
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 (master, wicked young bull), 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 | _ | 8 gore | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 tries | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tries | nsubj |
| 4 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gore | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tries | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 gore | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 gore | aux |
| 8 | gore | gore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gore | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gore | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gore | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | master | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | gore in a quote | shall | the wicked young bull = bull | master | to death | tree rules |
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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