Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 171
Fatima pretended to consult her astrological books and said with a smile “You are the man.”
Who acts: Fatima, You · What happens: pretend, consult, say, be · To what, where: astrological books, man · 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 (Fatima, You), 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 | Fatima | Fatima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pretended | nsubj |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 consult | mark |
| 4 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pretended | xcomp |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 books | nmod:poss |
| 6 | astrological | astrological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 books | amod |
| 7 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consult | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 smile | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 smile | det |
| 12 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 man | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pretended | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | Fatima | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consult | to-infinitive | Fatima not said here | Fatima's astrological books | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Fatima not said here | with a smile | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | You | the man | tree rules |
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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