Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 52
“Yes, my beloved,” answered the parrot, “there is one way.
Who acts: beloved, one way · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: parrot · 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 (beloved, one way), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 beloved | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parrot | det |
| 10 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 parrot | acl:relcl |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 way | nummod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | my beloved | the parrot | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent parrot=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | one way | the parrot not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot parrot=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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