Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 102
Sad to relate, his pious wishes were brought to nought by the greed of the townspeople.
Who acts: greed, Nor · What happens: relate, bring, wish · To what, where: pious wishes, nought
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greed, Nor), 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 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 relate | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 relate | mark |
| 3 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wishes | amod |
| 7 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux:pass |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 relate | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 nought | case |
| 11 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 brought | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 greed | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 greed | det |
| 14 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 townspeople | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 townspeople | det |
| 17 | townspeople | townspeople | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 greed | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 relate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | to-infinitive | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | the greed of the townspeople | Nor's pious wishes | nought | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to nought=Destination | |||
| 3 | wish | Nor | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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