Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 44
The indignant Marak resolved not to give his Hindu subjects a day’s more grace and announced that he would convert or kill them all that very evening.
Who acts: indignant Marak, Hindu · What happens: resolve, not give, subject, announce, convert, kill · To what, where: more grace, kazi · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (indignant Marak, Hindu), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Marak | det |
| 2 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Marak | amod |
| 3 | Marak | Marak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 resolved | nsubj |
| 4 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 give | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 resolved | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Hindu | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Hindu | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 subjects | nsubj |
| 10 | subjects | subject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 day | case |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 grace | amod |
| 15 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 subjects | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 announced | cc |
| 17 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 resolved | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 convert | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 convert | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 convert | aux |
| 21 | convert | convert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 announced | ccomp |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 kill | cc |
| 23 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 convert | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kill | obj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 evening | det:predet |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 evening | det |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 evening | advmod |
| 28 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kill | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | the indignant Marak | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not give | to-infinitive | the indignant Marak not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | subject | present | Marak's Hindu | a day's more grace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | announce speech: other | past | the indignant Marak not said here | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | convert | would | Hindu | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | kill | infinitive | Hindu not said here | kazi | evening | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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