Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 167
Latif Shah accepted the curse and consoled himself with the remark that his disciples were his sons.
Who acts: Latif, disciples · What happens: accept, console, be · To what, where: curse, sons
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 (Latif, disciples), 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 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 2 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Latif | flat |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 curse | det |
| 5 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 consoled | cc |
| 7 | consoled | console | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accepted | conj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 consoled | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 remark | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 remark | det |
| 11 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consoled | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 sons | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 disciples | nmod:poss |
| 14 | disciples | disciple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sons | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sons | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sons | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remark | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | Latif | the curse | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | console | past | Latif not said here | curse | with the remark | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Latif's disciples | Latif's sons | Latif nmod:poss | 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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