Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 25

But he could only have done that, if one among them was not a true anchorite and was still thinking of the joys of this world, while pretending to have given them up for ever.

Who acts: fakir, one · What happens: do, not be, think, pretend, give up, joy · To what, where: that, true anchorite, Lal, world

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 (fakir, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 done	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 done	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 anchorite	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 anchorite	mark
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 anchorite	nsubj
11	among	among	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 anchorite	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 anchorite	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 anchorite	det
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 anchorite	amod
17	anchorite	anchorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thinking	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thinking	aux
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 thinking	advmod
21	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 done	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 joys	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 joys	det
24	joys	joy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 thinking	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 joys	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pretending	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 pretending	mark
30	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 thinking	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 given	mark
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 given	aux
33	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 pretending	xcomp
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 given	obj
35	up	up	ADP	_	33 given	compound:prt
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 ever	case
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 given	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	could · perfect	fakir	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	not is a a condition, not said to happen	past	one	a true anchorite			tree rules
3	think speech: other	past · progressive	fakir not said here		still	of the joys of this world	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pretend	gerund	fakir not said here				tree rules
5	give up	to-infinitive · perfect	fakir not said here	Lal			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source
6	joy			this world			nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 25

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 25