Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 47

They prayed to the divine child and he bade them go to the river and sit in a temple that they would find there.

Who acts: kazi, Udero · What happens: pray, bade, go, sit, find · To what, where: kazi, river, temple

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 (kazi, Udero), 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 prayed	nsubj
2	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 child	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	divine	divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prayed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bade	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bade	nsubj
9	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 prayed	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bade	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bade	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sit	cc
16	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 prayed	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 temple	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 temple	det
19	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sit	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 find	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sit	advcl
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 find	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 prayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pray	past	kazi			to the divine child	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	bade	past	Udero	kazi			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Udero not said here		the river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
4	sit	present	kazi not said here		a temple		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in temple=Location
5	find	would	kazi		there		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 47