Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 49
“Three times” said Al Khisr, “you have broken your promise and questioned my acts.
Who acts: Three times, you, your, my · What happens: say, break, question, promise, act · To what, where: promise, acts · 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 (Three times, you, your, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | Khisr | Khisr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Al | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 broken | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 broken | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 broken | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 broken | aux |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 promise | nmod:poss |
| 14 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broken | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 questioned | cc |
| 16 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 broken | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 acts | nmod:poss |
| 18 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 questioned | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Three times | Al nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | break in a quote | present · perfect | you | your promise | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient | ||||
| 3 | question speech: other in a quote | past | you not said here | my acts | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | promise in a quote | your | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | act in a quote | my | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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