Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 73
He thought to himself that if the bull could purify itself from Brahman murder, he (Shiva) could, by doing what it did, purify himself from the sin of having burnt off one of Brahmadev’s five heads.
Who acts: Shiva, bull, talk, sin · What happens: think, purify, do, have, burnt off · To what, where: Shiva, talk, one
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 (Shiva, bull, talk, sin), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 himself | case |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 thought | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 purify | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 purify | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bull | det |
| 8 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 purify | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 purify | aux |
| 10 | purify | purify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 could | advcl |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 purify | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 murder | case |
| 13 | Brahman | brahman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 murder | amod |
| 14 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 purify | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 purify | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 could | nsubj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Shiva | punct |
| 18 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 he | conj |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 Shiva | punct |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 doing | punct |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 doing | mark |
| 23 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | advcl |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 doing | obj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 purify | punct |
| 28 | purify | purify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 doing | conj |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 purify | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 sin | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sin | det |
| 32 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 purify | obl |
| 33 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 34 having | mark |
| 34 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 sin | acl |
| 35 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 having | xcomp |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 37 one | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 burnt | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 heads | case |
| 39 | Brahmadev | Brahmadev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 heads | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 Brahmadev | case |
| 41 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 heads | nummod |
| 42 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 one | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Shiva | Shiva | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | purify a condition, not said to happen | could | the bull | talk | from Brahman murder | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer itself=Source from murder=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | gerund | Shiva not said here | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | do | past | talk | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | purify | infinitive | Shiva not said here | Shiva | from the sin | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer himself=Source from sin=Theme | |||
| 6 | have | gerund | the sin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | burnt off | participle | the sin not said here | one of Brahmadev's five heads | 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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