Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 166
One is that Shah Latif drew after him the son of one Jani, who in anger cursed the saint that his wife should bear him no sons.
Who acts: Shah, wife · What happens: be, curse, bear · To what, where: son, anger, saint, One
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 (Shah, wife), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 drew | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 drew | mark |
| 4 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Shah | flat |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 One | parataxis |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Jani | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Jani | nummod |
| 13 | Jani | Jani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cursed | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 anger | case |
| 17 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cursed | obl |
| 18 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 son | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 saint | det |
| 20 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cursed | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 bear | obj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bear | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 bear | aux |
| 25 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 saint | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bear | obj |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 sons | det |
| 28 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bear | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Shah | after legend | the son of one Jani obj; draw property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | curse | participle · passive | the son of one Jani | anger | the saint obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bear | should | legend's wife | the saint | legend obj; no sons obj | tree rules |
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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