Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 62
Pedro then asked for the cost of the expedition, estimated, I dare say, on a liberal scale.
Who acts: Pedro, I · What happens: ask, estimate, dare, say, cost · To what, where: expedition, liberal scale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pedro, I), 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 | Pedro | Pedro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 cost | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cost | det |
| 6 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 expedition | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 expedition | det |
| 9 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cost | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 estimated | punct |
| 11 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 expedition | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dare | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 dare | nsubj |
| 14 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 dare | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scale | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 scale | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 scale | det |
| 19 | liberal | liberal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 scale | amod |
| 20 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Pedro | then | for the cost of the expedition | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | estimate | participle | the expedition not said here | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dare | present | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | a liberal scale | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | cost | the expedition | nom cost «possession 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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