Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 18

On the fourteenth day they would with their wives in their arms throw themselves into it and thus escape the cruelty of Marak.

Who acts: banks · What happens: throw, escape · To what, where: banks, stream, cruelty

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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 throw	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 throw	aux
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 wives	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wives	nmod:poss
9	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 throw	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wives	nmod
13	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 throw	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 throw	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 escape	cc
18	thus	thus	ADV	_	19 escape	advmod
19	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 throw	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cruelty	det
21	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 escape	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Marak	case
23	Marak	Marak	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cruelty	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	would	banks = bank	banks = bank		stream	day	banks's wives in banks's arms nsubj	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer themselves=Theme into it=Result
2	escape	infinitive	banks = bank not said here	the cruelty of Marak				thus property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cruelty=Initial_Location

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 18

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 18