Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 12
But neither Shah Hussain nor his daughter had any wish that she should become the concubine of a Hindu king.
Who acts: Shah Hussain, beauty · What happens: have, become · To what, where: wish, concubine
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 (Shah Hussain, beauty), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 2 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 Hussain | nsubj |
| 3 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hussain | compound |
| 4 | Hussain | Hussain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 5 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 daughter | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Hussain | conj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 wish | det |
| 10 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 become | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 become | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 become | aux |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 concubine | det |
| 16 | concubine | concubine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 become | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 19 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 king | amod |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 concubine | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Shah Hussain nor merchant's daughter | any wish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | should | beauty | the concubine of a Hindu king | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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