Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 59
Thus, there is no possibility of the purchaser knowing what is meant unless he be acquainted with trade language.
Who acts: possibility, purchaser · What happens: be, know, mean, acquaint · To what, where: possibility · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (possibility, purchaser), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 possibility | det |
| 6 | possibility | possibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 purchaser | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 purchaser | det |
| 9 | purchaser | purchaser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possibility | nmod |
| 10 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 purchaser | acl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 meant | aux:pass |
| 13 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 knowing | ccomp |
| 14 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 17 acquainted | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 acquainted | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 17 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 meant | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 language | case |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 language | compound |
| 20 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 acquainted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no possibility of the purchaser | there | thus property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | the purchaser not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | mean | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | acquaint speech: other a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | possibility | with trade language | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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