Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 239
The girl turned on him scornfully and said “A fine hunter you are to hawk a tame pigeon!”
Who acts: girl · What happens: turn, say, hawk · To what, where: tame pigeon · 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 (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obl |
| 6 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunter | punct |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hunter | det |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hunter | amod |
| 12 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 are | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunter | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hawk | mark |
| 16 | hawk | hawk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 are | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pigeon | det |
| 18 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pigeon | amod |
| 19 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hawk | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunter | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the girl | on prince; scornfully property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the girl not said here | a fine hunter ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hawk in a quote | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | a tame pigeon | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Location |
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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