Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 42

But it was idle to strive to bind the Indus river.

Who acts: it · What happens: be, strive, bind · To what, where: Indus river

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 (it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 idle	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 idle	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 idle	cop
4	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 strive	mark
6	strive	strive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 idle	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bind	mark
8	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 strive	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
10	Indus	Indus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 river	compound
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bind	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 idle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		idle property	tree rules
2	strive	to-infinitive				tree rules
3	bind	to-infinitive		the Indus river		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 42