Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 112
Even the wicked Marak and his minister and kazi offered their help.
Who acts: wicked Marak, kazi · What happens: offer, help · To what, where: help
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 (wicked Marak, kazi), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 Marak | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Marak | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Marak | amod |
| 4 | Marak | Marak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 minister | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 minister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Marak | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kazi | cc |
| 9 | kazi | kazi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 minister | conj |
| 10 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 help | nmod:poss |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | the wicked Marak and Marak's minister and kazi | kazi's help | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent help=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | kazi | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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