Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 139
It was at her request that God had given the Burat and the saint must take it from her hands.
Who acts: love, God, saint · What happens: be, give, take · To what, where: request, Burat, love, hands
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 (love, God, saint), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 request | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 request | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 request | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 request | nmod:poss |
| 5 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 given | mark |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 given | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 request | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Burat | det |
| 11 | Burat | Burat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 given | iobj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 saint | det |
| 14 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 given | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 request | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | love | girl's request | girl nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | God | the Burat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | must | the saint | love | girl's hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from hand=Initial_Location |
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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