Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 45
He changed one of his two remaining friends into a deer and bade him run towards the gallows.
Who acts: anchorite · What happens: change, remain, run · To what, where: one, deer, bade, gallows
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 (anchorite), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 changed | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 friends | nummod |
| 7 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 friends | amod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 deer | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 deer | det |
| 11 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 run | cc |
| 13 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bade | obj |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 changed | conj |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 gallows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gallows | det |
| 18 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 run | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | anchorite | one of anchorite's two remaining friends | into a deer result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent one=Patient into deer=Result | |||
| 2 | remain | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | run | present | anchorite not said here | bade anchorite | the gallows | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards gallows=Destination |
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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