Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived a poor Brahman, who earned a tiny income as a clerk.
Who acts: poor Brahman · What happens: live, earn · To what, where: poor Brahman, tiny income
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Brahman), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Brahman | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Brahman | amod |
| 9 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 earned | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 earned | nsubj |
| 12 | earned | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Brahman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 income | det |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 income | amod |
| 15 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 earned | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 clerk | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 clerk | det |
| 18 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 earned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a poor Brahman | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | earn | past | a poor Brahman | a tiny income | as a clerk | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent income=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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