Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 68
It so chanced that the saint Gorakhnath passed by at that moment and Shiva bade him take Udero Lal as his pupil.
Who acts: guru, saint, Shiva · What happens: chance, pass, bade, take · To what, where: saint, Udero
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 (guru, saint, Shiva), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chanced | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 chanced | advmod |
| 3 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 passed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 saint | det |
| 6 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | Gorakhnath | Gorakhnath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saint | appos |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chanced | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bade | cc |
| 14 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bade | nsubj |
| 15 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chanced | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bade | obj |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bade | xcomp |
| 18 | Udero | Udero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Udero | flat |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 pupil | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pupil | nmod:poss |
| 22 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | guru | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | the saint | moment | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bade | past | Shiva | saint | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | Shiva not said here | Udero | as Udero's pupil | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent udero=Theme as pupil=Attribute |
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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