Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 174
May such a blossom be nipped in the bud.”
What happens: nip · To what, where: blossom, bud
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: 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 nipped | aux |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 blossom | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 blossom | det |
| 4 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nipped | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nipped | aux:pass |
| 6 | nipped | nip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bud | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bud | det |
| 9 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nipped | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nipped | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nip | may · passive | such blossom | the bud | vn run-51.3.2 «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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