The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 85
As soon as the merchant was gone Wali Dâd made up his mind that there was only one honourable way out of the shame and distress that he had created by his foolishness, and that was—to kill himself.
Who acts: merchant, one honourable way, Wali, that · What happens: be, make up, create, kill, mind · To what, where: mind, shame, Wali
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, one honourable way, Wali, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 made | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 gone | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | cop |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | advcl |
| 8 | Wali | Wali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obl |
| 9 | Dâd | Dâd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wali | flat |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 made | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mind | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | advcl |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 way | nummod |
| 19 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 shame | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 shame | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shame | det |
| 24 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 way | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 distress | cc |
| 26 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shame | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 created | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 created | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 created | aux |
| 30 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 shame | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 foolishness | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 foolishness | nmod:poss |
| 33 | foolishness | foolishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 created | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 was | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 was | cc |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 was | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 kill | punct |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 kill | mark |
| 40 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | parataxis |
| 41 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 kill | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the merchant | Wali obl; gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make up | past | Wali's mind | soon property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | be | past | one honourable way out the shame and distress | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | create | past · perfect | Wali | the shame and distress not said here | by Wali's foolishness | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=Result | |||
| 5 | be | past | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | kill | to-infinitive | Wali | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||||
| 7 | mind | Wali | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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