Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 145
Abdul Latif, before he started on his wanderings, had, because of his unsatisfied love for the Moghul girl, cursed the whole tribe of the Moghuls, who then lived in Sind.
Who acts: Abdul, Moghuls · What happens: start, have, curse, live, wander, love · To what, where: wanderings, whole tribe, Sind
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 (Abdul, Moghuls), 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 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 started | nsubj |
| 2 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Abdul | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 started | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wanderings | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 started | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 13 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 love | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 because | fixed |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 love | nmod:poss |
| 16 | unsatisfied | unsatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 love | amod |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 girl | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 20 | Moghul | Moghul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 girl | compound |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 love | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cursed | punct |
| 23 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 love | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tribe | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tribe | amod |
| 26 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cursed | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Moghuls | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Moghuls | det |
| 29 | Moghuls | Moghul | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 tribe | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lived | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 lived | nsubj |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 lived | advmod |
| 33 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Moghuls | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Sind | case |
| 35 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 lived | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Abdul | ABDUL's wanderings | ABDUL nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | have | past | Abdul not said here | ABDUL's unsatisfied love for the Moghul girl parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | curse | participle | the whole tribe of the Moghuls | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live | past | the Moghuls | Sind | then | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sind=Location | |||
| 5 | wander | ABDUL | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | love | ABDUL | for the Moghul girl | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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