Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 40
The lady moreover had little liking for her Musulman wooer, although perhaps a little flattered by his pressing attentions.
Who acts: lady, Musulman · What happens: have, flatter, press, attend · To what, where: little liking, little
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 (lady, Musulman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 liking | amod |
| 6 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wooer | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wooer | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Musulman | Musulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wooer | compound |
| 10 | wooer | wooer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 liking | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flattered | punct |
| 12 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 16 flattered | mark |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 16 flattered | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flattered | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 attentions | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 attentions | nmod:poss |
| 19 | pressing | press | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 attentions | amod |
| 20 | attentions | attention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flattered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the lady | little liking | for lady's Musulman wooer; moreover property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liking=Patient | |||
| 2 | flatter | participle | the lady not said here | a little | by Musulman's pressing attentions; perhaps property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | press | gerund | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | attend | Musulman | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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