Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 83
He first called to him his elder brothers Somo and Bhayandev and bade them give up the things of this world and like Phugar become his disciples.
Who acts: Udero, elder brothers, things · What happens: call, give up, become · To what, where: river, disciples · 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, elder brothers, things), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 called | advmod |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brothers | compound |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 give | nsubj |
| 9 | Somo | Somo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 give | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Bhayandev | cc |
| 11 | Bhayandev | Bhayandev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Somo | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bade | cc |
| 13 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Somo | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 give | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 things | det |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 become | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 things | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Phugar | cc |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 Phugar | case |
| 24 | Phugar | Phugar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 world | conj |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 disciples | nmod:poss |
| 27 | disciples | disciple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 become | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | Udero | river | first property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give up | present | Udero's elder brothers | Somo and Bhayandev and bade nsubj | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | become | present | the things of this world and Phugar | Udero's disciples | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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