Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 26
Lal Shahbaz told this to his friends and asked them whether they had one and all given up the world wholly.
Who acts: Lal · What happens: tell, ask, have, give up · To what, where: this, friends, Lal, one, all · Speech: someone speaks here
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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lal | flat |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 told | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 friends | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | obj |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 given | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 had | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 given | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obj |
| 21 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 17 given | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Lal | this | fakir's friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to friend=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Lal not said here | Lal | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Lal | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give up | participle · passive | all | the world obj; wholly property | 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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