Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 72
One day to test Phugar’s faith he told him that he wished to be alone and meditate.
Who acts: Phugar · What happens: test, tell, wish, be, meditate · To what, where: faith, 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 (Phugar), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 test | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 test | mark |
| 4 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Phugar | Phugar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 faith | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Phugar | case |
| 7 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 test | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 faith | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 wished | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wished | nsubj |
| 13 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 alone | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 alone | cop |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wished | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 meditate | cc |
| 18 | meditate | meditate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 13 wished | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 test | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | to-infinitive | Phugar's faith | day | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Phugar | Phugar's faith not said here | Udero | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | wish | past | Phugar | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | alone property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | meditate | present | Phugar not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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