Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 86
He called him and gave him the following seven gifts:—
Who acts: Udero · What happens: call, give, follow · To what, where: Phugar, Udero, seven gifts · 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), 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 | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 following | det |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | advcl |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 gifts | nummod |
| 10 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 following | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Udero | Phugar | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Udero not said here | Udero | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | Udero not said here | seven gifts | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=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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