Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 66
They sent him a cup full to the brim of milk, that he might know that just as the cup could hold no more milk, so Sehwan could hold no more anchorites.
Who acts: earnings, Sehwan, cup · What happens: send, know, hold · To what, where: cup, Sehwan, that, more milk, more anchorites
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 (earnings, Sehwan, cup), 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 | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cup | det |
| 5 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cup | amod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 brim | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brim | det |
| 9 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 milk | case |
| 11 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brim | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 know | obj |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 hold | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 hold | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cup | det |
| 21 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hold | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hold | aux |
| 23 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 know | parataxis |
| 24 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 milk | amod |
| 26 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hold | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hold | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 hold | advmod |
| 29 | Sehwan | Sehwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 hold | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 hold | aux |
| 31 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hold | conj |
| 32 | no | no | ADV | _ | 33 more | advmod |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 anchorites | amod |
| 34 | anchorites | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hold | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | earnings = earning | a cup | Sehwan | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination cup=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | might | Sehwan | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hold | could | the cup | more milk | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | could | Sehwan | more anchorites | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anchorite=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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