Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 71
Before leaving he offered to Lal Shahbaz and the latter accepted the hand of his daughter.
Who acts: Sehwan, latter · What happens: leave, offer, accept · To what, where: Lal, hand
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, latter), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 leaving | mark |
| 2 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 offered | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 offered | nsubj |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Lal | case |
| 6 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | obl |
| 7 | Shahbaz | Shahbaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lal | flat |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 accepted | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 latter | det |
| 10 | latter | latter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 accepted | nsubj |
| 11 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 offered | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accepted | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | Sehwan not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | offer | past | Sehwan | Lal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to lal=Goal | ||||
| 3 | accept | past | the latter | the hand of Sehwan's daughter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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