Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 53

I killed the youth, because although the son of true believers, he was himself an unbeliever and I feared lest he should corrupt the faith of his parents.

Who acts: I, companion · What happens: kill, be, fear, corrupt · To what, where: youth, companion, faith · 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 (I, companion), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 himself	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 himself	mark
7	although	although	SCONJ	_	9 son	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 son	det
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 himself	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 believers	case
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 believers	amod
12	believers	believer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 son	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 son	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 himself	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 himself	cop
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 killed	obl
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 unbeliever	det
18	unbeliever	unbeliever	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 himself	obl:unmarked
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 feared	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 feared	nsubj
21	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
22	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	25 corrupt	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 corrupt	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 corrupt	aux
25	corrupt	corrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 feared	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 faith	det
27	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 corrupt	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 parents	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 parents	nmod:poss
30	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 faith	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	past	I	the youth		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme
2	is a	past	companion	companion	although the son of true believers; a unbeliever obl:unmarked	tree rules
3	fear	past	I			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	corrupt	should	companion	the faith of companion's parents		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent faith=Patient

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 53

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 53