Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 115
“If,” said the fakir, “I win my goal through your help, I shall get you a Burat or letter of salvation.”
Who acts: fakir, your · What happens: say, win, get, help, letter · To what, where: goal, help, Burat, you, salvation · 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, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 said | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 If | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fakir | det |
| 7 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 win | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 win | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 win | nsubj |
| 11 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 goal | nmod:poss |
| 13 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 win | obj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 help | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 help | nmod:poss |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 win | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 win | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Burat | det |
| 23 | Burat | Burat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 letter | cc |
| 25 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Burat | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 salvation | case |
| 27 | salvation | salvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 letter | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fakir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | win in a quote | present | the fakir = fakir | my goal | your help | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | shall | the fakir = fakir | a Burat or letter of salvation | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary burat=Theme | |||
| 4 | help in a quote | your | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | letter in a quote | salvation | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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