Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 161

But the latter prayed to Sayad Mahmad Massum Shah and with his aid and his own sanctity, he tamed the snake and kept it in a cage, as a trophy of his victory.

Who acts: latter, Shah · What happens: pray, tame, keep · To what, where: Sayad Massum Shah, snake, sanctity, cage

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 (latter, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 prayed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 latter	det
3	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prayed	nsubj
4	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 Shah	case
6	Sayad	Sayad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Shah	compound
7	Mahmad	Mahmad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sayad	flat
8	Massum	Massum	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Shah	compound
9	Shah	Shah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 prayed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 aid	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 aid	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 aid	nmod:poss
13	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Shah	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sanctity	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sanctity	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sanctity	amod
17	sanctity	sanctity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Shah	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tamed	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tamed	nsubj
20	tamed	tame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prayed	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snake	det
22	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tamed	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kept	cc
24	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tamed	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kept	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 cage	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cage	det
28	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kept	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 trophy	punct
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 trophy	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 trophy	det
32	trophy	trophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kept	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 victory	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 victory	nmod:poss
35	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 trophy	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pray	past	the latter		Sayad Massum Shah and Shah's aid and Shah's own sanctity			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	tame	past	Shah	the snake				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent snake=Patient
3	keep	past	Shah not said here	sanctity		a cage	a trophy of Shah's victory parataxis	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cage=Location

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 161

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 161