Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 34
Sheikh Jalal yelled for mercy, but it was not granted him until he had owned himself beaten and had promised to become an obedient and humble follower of Lal Shahbaz.
Who acts: Sheikh · What happens: yell, not grant, own, beat, promise, become · To what, where: mercy, Sheikh, obedient follower
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 (Sheikh), 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 | Sheikh | Sheikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 yelled | nsubj |
| 2 | Jalal | Jalal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sheikh | flat |
| 3 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 mercy | case |
| 5 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yelled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 granted | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 granted | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 granted | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 granted | advmod |
| 11 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 yelled | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 granted | obj |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 owned | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 owned | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 owned | aux |
| 16 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 granted | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 owned | obj |
| 18 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 owned | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 promised | cc |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 promised | aux |
| 21 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 owned | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 become | mark |
| 23 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 promised | xcomp |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 follower | det |
| 25 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 follower | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 humble | cc |
| 27 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 obedient | conj |
| 28 | follower | follower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 become | xcomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Lal | case |
| 30 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 follower | nmod |
| 31 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Lal | flat |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 yelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | past | Sheikh | for mercy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mercy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not grant | past · passive | mercy | Sheikh obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | own | past · perfect | Sheikh | Sheikh | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beat | participle | Sheikh not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | Sheikh not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sheikh not said here | a obedient follower of Lal | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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