Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 141
At their instigation the cruel ruler ordered Abdul Latif to be impaled and then cut to pieces.
Who acts: cruel ruler, Mullas · What happens: order, impale, cut, instigate · To what, where: Abdul, instigation, pieces
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 (cruel ruler, Mullas), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 instigation | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 instigation | nmod:poss |
| 3 | instigation | instigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ordered | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ruler | det |
| 5 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ruler | amod |
| 6 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ordered | nsubj |
| 7 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ordered | obj |
| 9 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Abdul | flat |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 impaled | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impaled | aux:pass |
| 12 | impaled | impale | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ordered | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cut | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 cut | advmod |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impaled | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 pieces | case |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cut | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the cruel ruler | Abdul | Mullas's instigation | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent abdul=Theme at instigation=Asset | |||
| 2 | impale | to-infinitive · passive | the cruel ruler not said here | vn poke-19 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | the cruel ruler not said here | pieces | then | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Location | |||
| 4 | instigate | Mullas = mulla | nom instigation «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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