Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 104
In one hand he held his shoe and then he said to the idol “O Grandmother of the Samis, drink this milk or I shall beat you with this shoe.”
Who acts: Latif · What happens: hold, say, drink, beat · To what, where: shoe, one hand, idol, milk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Latif), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hand | nummod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 said | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 idol | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 idol | det |
| 14 | idol | idol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Grandmother | punct |
| 16 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 17 Grandmother | case |
| 17 | Grandmother | Grandmother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 idol | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Samis | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Samis | det |
| 20 | Samis | sami | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Grandmother | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drink | punct |
| 22 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 milk | det |
| 24 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drink | obj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 beat | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 beat | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 beat | aux |
| 28 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 drink | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 beat | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 shoe | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 shoe | det |
| 32 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 beat | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Latif | Latif's shoe | one hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Latif | the idol | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to idol=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | drink in a quote | infinitive | this milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | |||||
| 4 | beat in a quote | shall | Latif | the idol = idol | with this shoe | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with shoe=Instrument |
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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