Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 164
One day the shopwoman asked Fatima some questions concerning the marriage of her daughter.
Who acts: shopwoman, questions · What happens: ask, concern, marry · To what, where: questions, Fatima, marriage, daughter
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 (shopwoman, questions), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shopwoman | det |
| 4 | shopwoman | shopwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Fatima | Fatima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | iobj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 questions | det |
| 8 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asked | obj |
| 9 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 questions | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 marriage | det |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concerning | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marriage | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the shopwoman | some questions | Fatima | day | tree rules | ||
| 2 | concern | gerund | some questions not said here | the marriage of Fatima's daughter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus marriage=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | marry | Fatima's daughter | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=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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