Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 53
It was this way: A certain Murshid once challenged Shahbaz’s friends to bathe in a caldron of boiling oil.
Who acts: title, certain Murshid · What happens: be, challenge, bathe · To what, where: way, friends
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 (title, certain Murshid), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 way | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 challenged | punct |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Murshid | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Murshid | amod |
| 8 | Murshid | Murshid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 challenged | nsubj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 challenged | advmod |
| 10 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Shahbaz | case |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 challenged | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bathe | mark |
| 15 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 challenged | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 caldron | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 caldron | det |
| 18 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bathe | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 oil | case |
| 20 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 oil | compound |
| 21 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caldron | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | title | this way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | challenge | past | a certain Murshid | Shahbaz's friends | once property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bathe | to-infinitive | a certain Murshid not said here | in a caldron of boiling oil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in caldron=Theme |
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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