Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 13
But the dog continued so to pull at his coat, that the neighbours advised him to go with the dog and see what it wanted.
Who acts: dog, neighbours, bania · What happens: continue, pull, advise, go, see, want · To what, where: bania · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, neighbours, bania), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 continued | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 pull | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pull | mark |
| 7 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 continued | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 coat | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 coat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 advised | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 advised | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neighbours | det |
| 14 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 advised | nsubj |
| 15 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 advised | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 advised | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 dog | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | conj |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 wanted | obj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wanted | nsubj |
| 26 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the dog | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pull | to-infinitive | the dog not said here | at bania's coat | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at coat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past | the neighbours | bania | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | bania not said here | with the dog | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with dog=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | bania not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | want | past | dog | what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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