Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 56
On the instant he accepted the challenge and going to the Murshid’s house, leapt into the boiling oil.
Who acts: Murshid · What happens: accept, go, leapt · To what, where: challenge, instant, house, boiling oil
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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accepted | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 accepted | nsubj |
| 5 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 challenge | det |
| 7 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accepted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leapt | cc |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 leapt | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Murshid | det |
| 12 | Murshid | Murshid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Murshid | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 16 | leapt | leapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 accepted | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 oil | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oil | det |
| 19 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 oil | compound |
| 20 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leapt | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | Murshid | the challenge | the instant | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | gerund | the Murshid's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | leapt | infinitive | Murshid not said here | the boiling oil | tree rules |
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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