Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 17

At the same time they vowed that if no answer was vouchsafed to their prayers within a week, they would throw their children into the stream.

Who acts: banks · What happens: vow, vouchsafe, throw, pray · To what, where: answer, children, stream

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 (banks), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vowed	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 vowed	nsubj
6	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 vouchsafed	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 vouchsafed	mark
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 answer	det
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vouchsafed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vouchsafed	aux:pass
12	vouchsafed	vouchsafe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 vowed	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 prayers	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 prayers	nmod:poss
15	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 vouchsafed	obl
16	within	within	ADP	_	18 week	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 week	det
18	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vouchsafed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 throw	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 throw	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 throw	aux
22	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 vowed	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 children	nmod:poss
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 throw	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 stream	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stream	det
27	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throw	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	vow	past	banks = bank		time		tree rules
2	vouchsafe a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		no answer	week	to banks's prayers	tree rules
3	throw	would	banks = bank	banks's children		into the stream result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer child=Theme into stream=Result
4	pray		banks = bank				nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 17

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Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 17