Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 23
They did so and the wicked governor sent Aho to seize the baby directly it was born.
Who acts: supplications, wicked governor · What happens: do, send, seize, bear · To what, where: Aho, baby, governor
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 (supplications, wicked governor), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sent | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 governor | det |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 governor | amod |
| 7 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 9 | Aho | Aho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seize | mark |
| 11 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 baby | det |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seize | obj |
| 14 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 17 born | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 born | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 born | aux:pass |
| 17 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seize | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | supplications = supplication | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send | past | the wicked governor | Aho | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aho=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize | to-infinitive | the wicked governor not said here | the baby | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bear | past · passive | governor | directly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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