Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 43
After a little while the maina felt dull and begged the parrot to tell her a story.
Who acts: maina · What happens: feel, beg, tell · To what, where: parrot, story, fly · 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 (maina), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 felt | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 felt | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maina | det |
| 6 | maina | maina | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 felt | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 begged | cc |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 parrot | det |
| 12 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begged | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 story | det |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the maina | after a little | dull property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the maina not said here | the parrot | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent parrot=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the maina not said here | a story | fly | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic |
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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