Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 7
The dog wagged its tail as if it fully understood what the hillman told him.
Who acts: dog, hillman · What happens: wag, understand, tell · To what, where: tail, hound · 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, hillman), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wagged | nsubj |
| 3 | wagged | wag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wagged | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 understood | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 understood | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 understood | nsubj |
| 9 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 10 understood | advmod |
| 10 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wagged | advcl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 told | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hillman | det |
| 13 | hillman | hillman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 understood | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wagged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wag | past | the dog | dog's tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | dog | fully property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the hillman | hound | what obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic |
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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