Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 67
Udero Lal pleaded that even Vishnu’s avatars, such as Rama and Krishna had had their gurus, why then should one be denied to him?
Who acts: Udero, Vishnu avatars · What happens: plead, have, deny · To what, where: gurus, one, Udero · 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, Vishnu avatars), 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 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pleaded | nsubj |
| 2 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Udero | flat |
| 3 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 Vishnu | advmod |
| 6 | Vishnu | Vishnu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 avatars | compound |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Vishnu | case |
| 8 | avatars | avatar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rama | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 Rama | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | Rama | Rama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 avatars | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Krishna | cc |
| 14 | Krishna | Krishna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rama | conj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | aux |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 pleaded | ccomp |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 gurus | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gurus | guru | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 denied | punct |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 denied | advmod |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 denied | advmod |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 denied | aux |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 denied | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 denied | aux:pass |
| 25 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pleaded | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 denied | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plead speech: request | past | Udero | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | Vishnu avatars such Rama and Krishna | avatars's gurus | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guru=Patient | ||||
| 3 | deny | should · passive | one | Udero | then | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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