Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 160
Nuh Halani changed the spirit of a former disciple into a huge snake and bade it bite the unhappy Shah Latif.
Who acts: Halani, spirit · What happens: change, bite · To what, where: spirit, unhappy Shah Latif
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 (Halani, spirit), 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 | Nuh | nuh | INTJ | _ | 3 changed | discourse |
| 2 | Halani | Halani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spirit | det |
| 5 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 disciple | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 disciple | det |
| 8 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 disciple | amod |
| 9 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spirit | nmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 snake | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snake | det |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 snake | amod |
| 13 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bade | cc |
| 15 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snake | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bite | nsubj |
| 17 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Latif | det |
| 19 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Latif | amod |
| 20 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Latif | compound |
| 21 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bite | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Halani | the spirit of a former disciple | into a huge snake and bade | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bite | present | spirit | the unhappy Shah Latif | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latif=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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