Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 68

He made a flower float on the milk and returned the cup, thereby shewing to the fakirs that there was still room for yet another holy man and that the newcomer meant to be above the others, even as the flower was above the milk.

Who acts: Sehwan, newcomer, flower · What happens: make, return, shew, mean, be · To what, where: flower float, milk, cup, room, others · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sehwan, newcomer, flower), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 float	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 float	compound
5	float	float	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 milk	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 milk	det
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 returned	cc
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cup	det
12	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shewing	punct
14	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	15 shewing	advmod
15	shewing	shew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 fakirs	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fakirs	det
18	fakirs	fakir	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shewing	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 was	nsubj
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fakirs	acl:relcl
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 room	advmod
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shewing	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 man	case
25	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 man	advmod
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 man	det
27	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shewing	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 meant	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 meant	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 newcomer	det
32	newcomer	newcomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 meant	nsubj
33	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	38 others	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 others	cop
36	above	above	ADP	_	38 others	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 others	det
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 meant	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 milk	punct
40	even	even	ADV	_	47 milk	advmod
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 milk	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 flower	det
43	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 milk	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 milk	cop
45	above	above	ADP	_	47 milk	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 milk	det
47	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 others	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Sehwan	a flower float	the milk		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent float=Product
2	return	past	Sehwan not said here	the cup			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
3	shew	gerund	Sehwan not said here	room		to the fakirs; for another holy man; thereby property	tree rules
4	mean	past	the newcomer				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is not said to happen	to-infinitive			the others		tree rules
6	is	past	the flower		the milk		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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 68

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 68