Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 107
Without suspecting anything he thought over the words and lowering the cup looked intently at its contents.
Who acts: king · What happens: suspect, think, lower, look · To what, where: anything, words, cup
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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 suspecting | mark |
| 2 | suspecting | suspect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 looked | advcl |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 suspecting | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 anything | acl:relcl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thought | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lowering | cc |
| 10 | lowering | lower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 suspecting | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cup | det |
| 12 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lowering | obj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | intently | intently | ADV | _ | 13 looked | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 contents | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 contents | nmod:poss |
| 17 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 looked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | gerund | anything | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent anything=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | king | the words | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lower | gerund | the cup | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past | at draught's contents; intently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at contents=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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