Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 54
They not unnaturally declined the challenge, whereupon the Murshid mocked them as unworthy impostors.
Who acts: austerities, Murshid · What happens: not decline, mock · To what, where: challenge, austerities
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 (austerities, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 declined | nsubj |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 declined | advmod |
| 3 | unnaturally | unnaturally | ADV | _ | 4 declined | advmod |
| 4 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 challenge | det |
| 6 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declined | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mocked | punct |
| 8 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 mocked | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Murshid | det |
| 10 | Murshid | Murshid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mocked | nsubj |
| 11 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 declined | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mocked | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 impostors | case |
| 14 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 impostors | amod |
| 15 | impostors | impostor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mocked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 declined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not decline | past | austerities = austerity | the challenge | unnaturally property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | |||
| 2 | mock | past | the Murshid | austerities = austerity | as unworthy impostors; whereupon property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme as impostor=Attribute |
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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