Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 27
He begged the child to return with him to Marak, so as to convince him also.
Who acts: Aho · What happens: beg, return, convince · To what, where: child, Marak, Aho
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 (Aho), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 begged | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 return | mark |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 return | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Marak | case |
| 10 | Marak | Marak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 convince | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 convince | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 convince | mark |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 convince | mark |
| 15 | convince | convince | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 convince | obj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 convince | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Aho | the child | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | Aho not said here | Marak | with Aho | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to marak=Result | |||
| 3 | convince | to-infinitive | Aho not said here | Aho | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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