Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 30
As he tried, he saw the bania’s letter round its neck and learnt too late how innocent the dead dog had been.
Who acts: man, bania · What happens: try, see, learn, be, letter · To what, where: letter
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 (man, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 tried | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bania | det |
| 8 | bania | bania | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 letter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 bania | case |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 neck | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 letter | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 learnt | cc |
| 15 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 late | advmod |
| 17 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 learnt | xcomp |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 innocent | advmod |
| 19 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 late | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dog | amod |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 been | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 been | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 innocent | cop |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see | past | man | the bania's letter | round letter's neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | learn | past | man not said here | late property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | participle | man not said here | innocent property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | letter | the bania | round letter's neck | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent round=obl |
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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