Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 114
The fakir refused to tell him, unless Abdul Latif promised to help him to win what he sought.
Who acts: fakir, Abdul · What happens: refuse, not tell, promise, help, win, seek · To what, where: fakir · 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 (fakir, Abdul), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fakir | det |
| 2 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refused | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 8 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 11 promised | mark |
| 9 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 promised | nsubj |
| 10 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Abdul | flat |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promised | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 win | mark |
| 16 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 sought | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sought | nsubj |
| 19 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 win | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the fakir | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the fakir not said here | fakir | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen | past | Abdul | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | Abdul not said here | fakir | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | fakir not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | seek | past | ABDUL | what obj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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