Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 118
Whenever he did so, a lovely maiden of the tribe had given him alms and as she gave them, she repeated these words “Jhal fakir, Hal fakir.”
Who acts: fakir, fate · What happens: do, give, repeat · To what, where: lovely maiden, fakir, alms, words
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, fate), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | advcl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 7 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 maiden | amod |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tribe | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tribe | det |
| 11 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maiden | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 given | iobj |
| 15 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 given | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 repeated | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 gave | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 repeated | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 repeated | nsubj |
| 23 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | conj |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 words | det |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 repeated | obj |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 fakir | punct |
| 27 | Jhal | Jhal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 fakir | compound |
| 28 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 words | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fakir | punct |
| 30 | Hal | hal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fakir | amod |
| 31 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fakir | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 fakir | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fakir | whenever property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | a lovely maiden of the tribe | fakir | alms obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | fate | alms = alm | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | repeat | past | fate | this words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
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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