Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 8
Such were their wickedness and their vigour that they enforced the jus primae noctis on every young lady, who was married within their dominions.
Who acts: Alor · What happens: be, enforce, marry · To what, where: Such wickedness, jus, young lady
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 (Alor), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wickedness | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wickedness | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wickedness | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 vigour | cc |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 vigour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wickedness | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 enforced | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 enforced | nsubj |
| 10 | enforced | enforce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vigour | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jus | det |
| 12 | jus | jus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enforced | obj |
| 13 | primae | primae | X | _ | 14 noctis | compound |
| 14 | noctis | noctis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jus | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 lady | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 lady | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lady | amod |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enforced | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 married | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 married | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 married | aux:pass |
| 22 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 lady | acl:relcl |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 dominions | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 married | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wickedness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Alor's Such wickedness and Alor's vigour | Alor nmod:poss; Alor's vigour conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enforce | past | Alor | the jus and primae noctis | on every young lady | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jus=Theme | |||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | every young lady | within Alor's dominions | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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