Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 109
They invited him to a feast, intending to make their guest the principal dish.
Who acts: wonder · What happens: invite, intend, make · To what, where: ABDUL, principal dish, guest
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 invited | nsubj |
| 2 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 invited | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 feast | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 invited | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 intending | punct |
| 8 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 invited | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 intending | xcomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 guest | nmod:poss |
| 12 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dish | det |
| 14 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dish | amod |
| 15 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | wonder | ABDUL | to a feast | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | intend | gerund | wonder not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | wonder not said here | the principal dish | wonder's guest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset guest=Beneficiary dish=Product |
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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