Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 33
My master the merchant who is on board would only let me bring the commonest toys ashore.”
Who acts: merchant, master, me · What happens: be, let, bring · To what, where: board, me, commonest toys
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, master, me), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 board | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 board | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 board | case |
| 8 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | aux |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 let | advmod |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 toys | det |
| 15 | commonest | common | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 toys | amod |
| 16 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bring | obj |
| 17 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the merchant | board | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | would | My master | me | the merchant nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | me not said here | the commonest toys | ashore property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent toy=Theme |
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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