Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 71
“Never mind,” said the abandoned young bull, “I know how to purify myself even from the deadly sin of Brahmahatya or Brahman murder.”
Who acts: abandoned young bull · What happens: not mind, say, abandon, know, purify · To what, where: abandoned young bull · 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 (abandoned 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bull | det |
| 8 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bull | amod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bull | amod |
| 10 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 purify | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 purify | mark |
| 17 | purify | purify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 know | ccomp |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 purify | obj |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 sin | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 sin | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sin | det |
| 22 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sin | amod |
| 23 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 purify | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Brahmahatya | case |
| 25 | Brahmahatya | Brahmahatya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sin | nmod |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 murder | cc |
| 27 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 murder | compound |
| 28 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Brahmahatya | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the abandoned young bull | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | abandon | participle | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | the abandoned young bull = bull | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | purify in a quote | to-infinitive | the abandoned young bull = bull | from the deadly sin of Brahmahatya or Brahman murder | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer myself=Source from sin=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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