Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 47
“I did not say that I would marry you,” she said “when you had finished the minaret.
Who acts: I, lady, you · What happens: not say, marry, say, finish · To what, where: you, minaret · 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 (I, lady, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 marry | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 marry | aux |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 finished | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 finished | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 finished | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 finished | aux |
| 19 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 minaret | det |
| 21 | minaret | minaret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finished | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | marry in a quote | would | I | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | finish in a quote | past · perfect | you | the minaret | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector minaret=Eventuality |
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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