Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 157
“Nay,” said the woman, “I am not fit to teach you.
Who acts: woman · What happens: say, not be, teach · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fit | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fit | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fit | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fit | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fit | advmod |
| 13 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 teach | mark |
| 15 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fit | xcomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 teach | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | the woman = woman | fit property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the woman = woman not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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: «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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