Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 129
He called the girl’s parents and told them the tale of the fakir’s wooing and its tragic end.
Who acts: storm, wooing, fakir · What happens: call, tell, woo · To what, where: parents, tale · 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 (storm, wooing, fakir), 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 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 girl | case |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tale | det |
| 11 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wooing | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fakir | det |
| 14 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wooing | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 fakir | case |
| 16 | wooing | wooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tale | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 end | cc |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 end | nmod:poss |
| 19 | tragic | tragic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 end | amod |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wooing | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | storm | the girl's parents | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | storm not said here | the tale of the fakir's wooing and strength's tragic end | parents = parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tale=Topic | |||
| 3 | tell | the fakir's wooing and strength's tragic end | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | woo | the fakir | nom wooing «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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