Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 125
He told them to send the lovely girl to the hut wherein he had put his humble belongings.
Who acts: tribe · What happens: tell, send, put · To what, where: verses, lovely girl, hut, humble belongings · 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 (tribe), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 send | mark |
| 5 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 send | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 send | obl |
| 12 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 put | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | aux |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 send | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 belongings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 belongings | amod |
| 18 | belongings | belonging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | tribe | verses = verse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | tribe not said here | the lovely girl | the hut | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to hut=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | past · perfect | tribe | tribe's humble belongings | wherein property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent belonging=Goal |
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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