Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 41
Now among the old man’s many accomplishments was the power to understand the speech of birds.
Who acts: old man · What happens: be, understand, accomplish, speak · To what, where: power, speech, birds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 power | advmod |
| 2 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 accomplishments | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accomplishments | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 man | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 accomplishments | amod |
| 8 | accomplishments | accomplishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 power | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 power | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 power | det |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 understand | mark |
| 13 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 power | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 speech | det |
| 15 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 understand | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 birds | case |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 speech | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 power | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the power | now | among the old man's many accomplishments | tree rules | |||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | the speech of birds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | accomplish | the old man | nom accomplishment «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | speak | birds | nom speech «communication 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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