Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 33
To punish him for stopping the boat, Lal Shahbaz made the window grow so small that it gripped the fakir’s neck as if in a vice.
Who acts: Lal, window · What happens: punish, stop, make, grow, grip · To what, where: Sheikh, boat, window, neck
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, window), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 punish | mark |
| 2 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 grow | advcl |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 punish | obj |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 stopping | mark |
| 5 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 grow | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopping | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lal | flat |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 small | advmod |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grow | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 gripped | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gripped | nsubj |
| 19 | gripped | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 small | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fakir | det |
| 21 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 neck | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 fakir | case |
| 23 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gripped | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 vice | case |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 vice | mark |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 vice | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 vice | det |
| 28 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gripped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | to-infinitive | Sheikh | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stop | gerund | the boat | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality boat=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Lal | the window | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Product | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | grip | past | window | the fakir's neck | as a vice | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Experiencer |
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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