Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 86
One day the Goddess Parvati gave to a devout old couple in Ujjain an apple, that conferred immortality on anyone who ate it.
Who acts: Goddess Parvati, apple · What happens: give, confer, eat · To what, where: apple, devout old couple, immortality, anyone
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 (Goddess Parvati, apple), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Parvati | det |
| 4 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Parvati | compound |
| 5 | Parvati | Parvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 couple | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 couple | det |
| 9 | devout | devout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 couple | amod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 couple | amod |
| 11 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Ujjain | case |
| 13 | Ujjain | Ujjain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 couple | nmod |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 apple | det |
| 15 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 conferred | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 conferred | nsubj |
| 18 | conferred | confer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 apple | acl:relcl |
| 19 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 conferred | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 anyone | case |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 conferred | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 ate | nsubj |
| 23 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ate | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Goddess Parvati | a apple | a devout old couple in Ujjain | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent apple=Theme to couple=Recipient | ||
| 2 | confer | past | a apple | immortality | anyone | tree rules | |||
| 3 | eat | past | immortality | who nsubj | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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