Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 100
“Yes,” said the boy, “I shall be very proud to sell the king wisdom; but my fee will be one lakh.”
Who acts: boy, fee · What happens: say, be, sell · To what, where: king wisdom, one lakh · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, fee), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 proud | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 proud | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 proud | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 proud | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 proud | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 proud | advmod |
| 14 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sell | mark |
| 16 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 proud | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wisdom | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wisdom | compound |
| 19 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sell | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 lakh | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 lakh | cc |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fee | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lakh | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 lakh | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 lakh | cop |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 lakh | nummod |
| 27 | lakh | lakh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 lakh | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 lakh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | the boy = boy | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sell in a quote | to-infinitive | the boy = boy not said here | the king wisdom | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | future | my fee | one lakh | tree rules |
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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