Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 173

He cursed his unborn child, saying “If the child gives all this trouble now, what terrible trouble it will give when it is grown up!

Who acts: Latif, child, terrible trouble · What happens: curse, say, give, grow up · To what, where: unborn child, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

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, child, terrible trouble), 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 cursed	nsubj
2	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
4	unborn	unborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cursed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cursed	advcl
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 gives	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 gives	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gives	nsubj
12	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	ccomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 trouble	det:predet
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 trouble	det
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gives	obj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 gives	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 give	obj
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 trouble	amod
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	nsubj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gives	conj
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 grown	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grown	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 grown	aux:pass
27	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 give	advcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 grown	compound:prt
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 cursed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past	Latif	Latif's unborn child			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	say speech: express	gerund	Latif not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the child	all trouble	now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme
4	give in a quote	future	terrible trouble			what obj; trouble nsubj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
5	grow up in a quote	present · passive		trouble			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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 173

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 173