Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 36
Al Khisr answered that if Moses came and suffered all that Al Khisr did without asking any questions he could be his disciple, but not otherwise.
Who acts: Al, Moses · What happens: answer, come, suffer, do, ask, be · To what, where: all, questions, disciple · 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 (Al, Moses), 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 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | Khisr | Khisr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Al | flat |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 suffered | cc |
| 9 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 suffered | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 did | obj |
| 12 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 did | nsubj |
| 13 | Khisr | Khisr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Al | flat |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 all | acl:relcl |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 asking | mark |
| 16 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 did | advcl |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 questions | det |
| 18 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 asking | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 disciple | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 disciple | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 disciple | cop |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 disciple | nmod:poss |
| 23 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asking | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 otherwise | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 otherwise | cc |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 otherwise | advmod |
| 27 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 3 answered | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Al | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | Moses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suffer | past | Moses not said here | all | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Al | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Al not said here | any questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | could | Moses | Moses's disciple | 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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