Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 66
The god replied “Why do you, who are the guru of gurus, want a guru?”
Who acts: god, you · What happens: reply, be, want · To what, where: 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 (god, you), 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 | 2 god | det |
| 2 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
| 5 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 want | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 want | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guru | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 guru | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 guru | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 guru | det |
| 12 | guru | guru | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 you | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gurus | case |
| 14 | gurus | guru | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 guru | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guru | punct |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 guru | det |
| 18 | guru | guru | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 want | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | the god | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the guru | of gurus; who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | a guru | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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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