Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 163
He redeemed the snake at the cost of a vast stretch of country and turning the snake again into a spirit, sent it back to do service to Nuh Halani in the house of Hades.
Who acts: Makhdum, vast stretch · What happens: redeem, turn, send back, do, cost · To what, where: snake, cost, spirit, service, Nuh, house
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 (Makhdum, vast stretch), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 redeemed | nsubj |
| 2 | redeemed | redeem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snake | det |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 redeemed | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 cost | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cost | det |
| 7 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 redeemed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stretch | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stretch | det |
| 10 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stretch | amod |
| 11 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cost | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretch | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turning | cc |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stretch | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 snake | det |
| 17 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turning | obj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 turning | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 spirit | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 spirit | det |
| 21 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turning | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sent | punct |
| 23 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 redeemed | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sent | obj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 sent | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sent | advcl |
| 28 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Nuh | case |
| 30 | Nuh | Nuh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obl |
| 31 | Halani | Halani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Nuh | flat |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 house | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 house | det |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Hades | case |
| 36 | Hades | Hade | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 house | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 redeemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | redeem | past | Makhdum | the snake | the cost of a vast stretch of country | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | a vast stretch of country not said here | the snake | a spirit | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent snake=Theme into spirit=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | send back | past | Makhdum not said here | spirit | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Makhdum not said here | service | Nuh | the house of Hades | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | ||
| 5 | cost | a vast stretch of country | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=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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