Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 51
The three wicked men fell at Udero Lal’s feet and Marak took a mighty oath never again to harass the Hindus.
Who acts: three wicked men, Marak · What happens: fall, take, harass · To what, where: feet, mighty oath, Hindus
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 (three wicked men, Marak), 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 | 4 men | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 7 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Udero | flat |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Udero | case |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | Marak | Marak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 oath | det |
| 15 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 oath | amod |
| 16 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 again | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 harass | mark |
| 20 | harass | harass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 took | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Hindus | det |
| 22 | Hindus | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 harass | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the three wicked men | Udero's feet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Marak | a mighty oath | again; never | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme | |||
| 3 | harass | to-infinitive | Marak not said here | the Hindus | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hindu=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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