Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 152
Abdul Latif, or as we should now call him Latif Shah, did not settle down to enjoy his wedded happiness at Varsum, where Shah Habib had lived and where he himself had been born.
Who acts: we, Abdul, Shah · What happens: call, not settle down, enjoy, wed, live, bear · To what, where: ABDUL, wedded happiness, Varsum · 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 (we, Abdul, Shah), 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 | 16 settle | nsubj |
| 2 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Abdul | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 call | cc |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 call | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 call | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 call | aux |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 call | advmod |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Abdul | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 call | obj |
| 11 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 call | xcomp |
| 12 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Latif | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Abdul | punct |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 settle | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 settle | advmod |
| 16 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 settle | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 enjoy | mark |
| 19 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 settle | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wedded | wed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 happiness | amod |
| 22 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enjoy | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Varsum | case |
| 24 | Varsum | Varsum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 happiness | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lived | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 lived | advmod |
| 27 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 lived | nsubj |
| 28 | Habib | Habib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Shah | flat |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lived | aux |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 happiness | acl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 born | cc |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 born | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 born | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 33 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 born | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 born | aux:pass |
| 37 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 lived | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 settle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | should | we | ABDUL | now | Latif xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | not settle down | past · do-support | Abdul | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | Abdul not said here | ABDUL's wedded happiness | Varsum | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | wed | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | live | past · perfect | Shah | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | bear | past · perfect · passive | ABDUL | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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