Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 20
Lal Shahbaz determined to reduce him to obedience and make him his disciple.
Who acts: Lal · What happens: determine, reduce, make · To what, where: Jalal, obedience, disciple
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 (Lal), 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 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lal | flat |
| 3 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 reduce | mark |
| 5 | reduce | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reduce | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 obedience | case |
| 8 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reduce | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reduce | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 disciple | nmod:poss |
| 13 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | Lal | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reduce | to-infinitive | Lal not said here | Jalal | to obedience goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Patient to obedience=Goal | |||
| 3 | make | infinitive | Lal not said here | Jalal's disciple | Jalal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary disciple=Product |
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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