Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 180
His horrified disciples beseeched him to let them write the Shah jo Rasalo from memory.
Who acts: horrified disciples, sorrows · What happens: beseeche, let, write · To what, where: Shah, sorrows, Shah jo, memory
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 (horrified disciples, sorrows), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 disciples | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horrified | horrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 disciples | amod |
| 3 | disciples | disciple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beseeched | nsubj |
| 4 | beseeched | beseeche | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beseeched | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beseeched | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jo | det |
| 11 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 jo | compound |
| 12 | jo | jo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 write | obj |
| 13 | Rasalo | Rasalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 jo | appos |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 memory | case |
| 15 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 write | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beseeched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseeche | past | Shah's horrified disciples | Shah | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | Shah's horrified disciples not said here | sorrows = sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | write | infinitive | sorrows = sorrow not said here | the Shah jo | memory | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent jo=Result from memory=Material |
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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