Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 16

On its banks the despairing Hindus gathered and prayed to the great river to save them from the hands of Marak.

Who acts: despairing Hindus · What happens: despair, gather, pray, save · To what, where: banks, hands

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 (despairing Hindus), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 banks	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 banks	nmod:poss
3	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gathered	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Hindus	det
5	despairing	despair	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Hindus	amod
6	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 gathered	nsubj
7	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 prayed	cc
9	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gathered	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 river	amod
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prayed	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 save	mark
15	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 prayed	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 save	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 hands	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hands	det
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 save	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Marak	case
21	Marak	Marak	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 hands	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	despair	gerund					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	gather	past	the despairing Hindus		respite's banks		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	pray	past	the despairing Hindus not said here			to the great river	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	save	to-infinitive	the despairing Hindus not said here	banks = bank	the hands of Marak		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from hand=Source

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 16