Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 97
It appears that he misused his position by artificially forcing up the price of grain and then selling his stock at a large profit.
Who acts: It, Beg · What happens: appear, misuse, force up, sell, stock · To what, where: position, price, stock, large profit
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 (It, Beg), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appears | nsubj |
| 2 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 misused | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 misused | nsubj |
| 5 | misused | misuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appears | ccomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 position | nmod:poss |
| 7 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 misused | obj |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 forcing | mark |
| 9 | artificially | artificially | ADV | _ | 10 forcing | advmod |
| 10 | forcing | force | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 misused | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 forcing | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 price | det |
| 13 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forcing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 grain | case |
| 15 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 price | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 selling | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 selling | advmod |
| 18 | selling | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 forcing | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 stock | nmod:poss |
| 20 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 selling | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 profit | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 profit | det |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 profit | amod |
| 24 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 selling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | misuse | past | Beg | Beg's position | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | force up | gerund | Beg not said here | the price of grain | artificially property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Recipient | |||
| 4 | sell | gerund | Beg not said here | Beg's stock | a large profit | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent stock=Theme at profit=Asset | ||
| 5 | stock | Beg | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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