Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 103
The saint blessed him and promised him that his life long he would never lack food.
Who acts: saint, life · What happens: bless, promise, not lack · To what, where: Udero, food
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saint, life), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blessed | nsubj |
| 3 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blessed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 promised | cc |
| 6 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blessed | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 promised | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 lack | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lack | nsubj:outer |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 lack | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lack | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lack | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 lack | advmod |
| 15 | lack | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 promised | advcl |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lack | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | past | the saint | Udero | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the saint not said here | Udero | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not lack | would | Udero's life | food | Udero nsubj; long property | 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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