Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 144
They spoke of these marvels to Lalla Beg, who at once remitted the sentence.
Who acts: executioners, Lalla Beg · What happens: speak, remit · To what, where: Lalla Beg, sentence · 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 (executioners, Lalla Beg), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 marvels | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 marvels | det |
| 5 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spoke | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Beg | case |
| 7 | Lalla | Lalla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Beg | compound |
| 8 | Beg | Beg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remitted | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 remitted | nsubj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 remitted | obl |
| 13 | remitted | remit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Beg | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sentence | det |
| 15 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remitted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | executioners = executioner | Lalla Beg | of this marvels | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to beg=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | remit | past | Lalla Beg | the sentence | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme |
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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