Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 75
The Saint thereupon cursed him and vowed that the girl should wed no one else, but would find an instant resting place in paradise.
Who acts: Saint, girl · What happens: curse, vow, wed, find · To what, where: Sadaruddin, one, instant resting place, paradise
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 (Saint, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Saint | det |
| 2 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | nsubj |
| 3 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 cursed | advmod |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cursed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 vowed | cc |
| 7 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cursed | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 wed | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wed | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wed | aux |
| 12 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 vowed | advcl |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wed | obj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cursed | conj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 21 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 place | amod |
| 22 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 place | compound |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 paradise | case |
| 25 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 place | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past | the Saint | Sadaruddin | thereupon property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | vow | past | the Saint not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wed | should | the girl | no one | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | would | the Saint not said here | a instant resting place | paradise | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
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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