Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 11
He was a bigoted Musulman and he suddenly resolved to convert to Islam the whole Hindu population under him.
Who acts: A.D · What happens: be, resolve, convert · To what, where: bigoted Musulman, whole Hindu population, Islam
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 (A.D), 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 | 5 Musulman | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Musulman | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Musulman | det |
| 4 | bigoted | bigoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Musulman | amod |
| 5 | Musulman | Musulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 resolved | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 resolved | nsubj |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 resolved | advmod |
| 9 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Musulman | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 convert | mark |
| 11 | convert | convert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 resolved | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Islam | case |
| 13 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 convert | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 population | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 population | amod |
| 16 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 population | amod |
| 17 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 convert | obj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 population | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Musulman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | A.D | a bigoted Musulman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resolve | past | A.D | a bigoted Musulman not said here | suddenly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | convert | to-infinitive | A.D not said here | the whole Hindu population | Islam | under A.D | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent population=Patient to islam=Result |
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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