Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 56

When the Hindus went to Nasarpur to tell Ratno and Devki how their child had helped them, they found Udero Lal once more a baby sleeping peacefully in his cradle.

Who acts: Hindus, child, children, baby · What happens: go, tell, help, find, sleep · To what, where: Nasarpur, Ratno, Udero, cradle · 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 (Hindus, child, children, baby), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hindus	det
3	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Nasarpur	case
6	Nasarpur	Nasarpur	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
9	Ratno	Ratno	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Devki	cc
11	Devki	Devki	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ratno	conj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 helped	advmod
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 child	nmod:poss
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 helped	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 helped	aux
16	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tell	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 helped	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Udero	Udero	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 found	obj
22	Lal	Lal	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Udero	flat
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 found	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 baby	det
26	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 more	nsubj
27	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 baby	acl
28	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	27 sleeping	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 cradle	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 cradle	nmod:poss
31	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sleeping	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Hindus		Nasarpur			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Hindus not said here		Ratno and Devki			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ratno=Recipient
3	help	past · perfect	Ratno's child	Ratno				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
4	find	past	children = child	Udero				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent udero=Topic
5	sleep	gerund	a baby not said here			Hindu's cradle	peacefully property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=Location

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 56

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 56