Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 40
Like a true ascetic he rejected her odious advances with the icy disdain of Saint Joseph.
Who acts: Farid, wife · What happens: reject, advance, disdain · To what, where: odious advances, Saint
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 (Farid, wife), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 ascetic | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ascetic | det |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ascetic | amod |
| 4 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejected | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rejected | nsubj |
| 6 | rejected | reject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 advances | nmod:poss |
| 8 | odious | odious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 advances | amod |
| 9 | advances | advance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rejected | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 disdain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 disdain | det |
| 12 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 disdain | amod |
| 13 | disdain | disdain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejected | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Saint | case |
| 15 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 disdain | nmod |
| 16 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Saint | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rejected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reject | past | Farid | wife's odious advances | like a true ascetic; with the icy disdain of Saint | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advance=Theme | |||
| 2 | advance | wife | nom advance «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | disdain | Saint | nom disdain «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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