Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 63
When Udero Lal was ten and old enough to be invested with the sacred thread, he asked to be given a guru.
Who acts: Udero · What happens: be, invest, ask, give · To what, where: ten, guru · 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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ten | mark |
| 2 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ten | nsubj |
| 3 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Udero | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ten | cop |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 old | compound |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 old | cc |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 old | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 invested | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 invested | aux:pass |
| 11 | invested | invest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 old | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 thread | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thread | det |
| 14 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thread | amod |
| 15 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 invested | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 given | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 given | aux:pass |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 guru | det |
| 23 | guru | guru | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Udero | ten | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invest | to-infinitive · passive | with the sacred thread | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: with thread=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Udero | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | a guru | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: guru=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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