Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 84
But though they promised always to worship light and water, they would not give up all and follow him.
Who acts: things · What happens: promise, worship, not give up, follow · To what, where: light, all, 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 promised | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | advcl |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 promised | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 worship | mark |
| 7 | worship | worship | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 worship | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 water | cc |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 light | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 give | advmod |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 give | compound:prt |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 give | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 follow | cc |
| 19 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 give | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 follow | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | things = thing | always property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | worship not said to happen | to-infinitive | things = thing not said here | light and water | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not give up | would | things = thing | all | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Source | ||||
| 4 | follow | infinitive | things = thing not said here | Udero | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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