Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 101
The king paid the lakh and got in return a paper on which the boy had written: “Do nothing without thinking deeply first.”
Who acts: king · What happens: pay, get, write, do, think · To what, where: lakh, paper, return, boy, nothing · 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 (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | nsubj |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lakh | det |
| 5 | lakh | lakh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 return | case |
| 9 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 paper | det |
| 11 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 written | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 written | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 written | aux |
| 17 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 paper | acl:relcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Do | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Do | punct |
| 20 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 Do | obj |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 thinking | mark |
| 23 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 Do | advcl |
| 24 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 25 first | advmod |
| 25 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 thinking | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Do | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | the king | the lakh | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the king not said here | a paper | return | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paper=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | write | past · perfect · passive | the boy | a paper | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | infinitive | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | gerund | first property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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