Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 30
That night God appeared to him in a dream, rebuked him for his vanity and told him that his servant Al Khisr was wiser than he was.
Who acts: God, Al, Conscious · What happens: appear, rebuke, tell, be · To what, where: Conscious, dream · 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 (God, Al, Conscious), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 appeared | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dream | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dream | det |
| 9 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rebuked | punct |
| 11 | rebuked | rebuke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rebuked | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 vanity | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 vanity | nmod:poss |
| 15 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rebuked | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rebuked | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 wiser | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 servant | nmod:poss |
| 21 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Al | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 wiser | nsubj |
| 23 | Khisr | Khisr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Al | flat |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 wiser | cop |
| 25 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 told | parataxis |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 28 was | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 was | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 wiser | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | God | Conscious | a dream | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Location | ||
| 2 | rebuke | past | God not said here | Conscious | for Conscious's vanity | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for vanity=Attribute | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | God not said here | Conscious | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Al Conscious's servant | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | past | Conscious | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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