Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 44
At first the parrot demurred, then he said: “There is a story going on before your very eyes.
Who acts: parrot, maina, story · What happens: demur, say, be, go on · To what, where: eyes · 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 (parrot, maina, story), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 demurred | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 parrot | det |
| 4 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 demurred | nsubj |
| 5 | demurred | demur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 demurred | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 12 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 story | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 going | compound:prt |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 eyes | advmod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 going | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 demurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demur | participle | the parrot | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | maina | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a story | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go on in a quote | gerund | a story not said here | your eyes | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before eye=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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