Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 108
After Abdul Latif had left the spot, they plotted to kill and eat him, so as to obtain his supernatural powers.
Who acts: wonder · What happens: leave, plot, kill, eat, obtain · To what, where: Abdul, supernatural powers
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 (wonder), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 left | mark |
| 2 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Abdul | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 plotted | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spot | det |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 plotted | nsubj |
| 10 | plotted | plot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 plotted | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eat | cc |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 kill | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 obtain | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 obtain | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 obtain | mark |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 obtain | mark |
| 20 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 plotted | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 powers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | supernatural | supernatural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 powers | compound |
| 23 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 obtain | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 plotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect · passive | Abdul | the spot obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme spot=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | plot | past | wonder | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | wonder not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | wonder not said here | ABDUL | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | obtain | to-infinitive | wonder not said here | ABDUL's supernatural powers | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=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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