Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 86
Even so Mirza Beg with a father’s vigilance pierced his disguise and threatened to set his falcons on Abdul Latif, unless he flew away.
Who acts: Mirza Beg, Beg · What happens: pierce, threaten, set, fly away · To what, where: disguise, falcons, Abdul
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 (Mirza Beg, Beg), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 10 pierced | advmod |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 pierced | mark |
| 3 | Mirza | Mirza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Beg | compound |
| 4 | Beg | Beg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pierced | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 vigilance | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vigilance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | vigilance | vigilance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Beg | nmod |
| 10 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 disguise | nmod:poss |
| 12 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pierced | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threatened | cc |
| 14 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pierced | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 set | mark |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 threatened | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 falcons | nmod:poss |
| 18 | falcons | falcon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 set | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Abdul | case |
| 20 | Abdul | Abdul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | Latif | Latif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Abdul | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 flew | punct |
| 23 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 25 flew | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 flew | nsubj |
| 25 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pierced | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 flew | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | past | Mirza Beg with a father's vigilance | Beg's disguise | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Patient | ||||
| 2 | threaten | participle | Mirza Beg with a father's vigilance not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | set not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mirza Beg with a father's vigilance not said here | Beg's falcons | Abdul | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme on abdul=Destination | |||
| 4 | fly away a condition, not said to happen | past | Beg | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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