Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 11
One day he resolved to seek some other way of earning a living and this is what he did.
Who acts: boy, other way, this · What happens: resolve, seek, earn, be, do · To what, where: other way, living
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, other way, this), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resolved | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 resolved | nsubj |
| 4 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 seek | mark |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 resolved | xcomp |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 way | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seek | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 earning | mark |
| 11 | earning | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 living | det |
| 13 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 earning | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 what | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 what | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | cop |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 resolved | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | boy | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | boy not said here | some other way | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | earn | gerund | some other way not said here | a living | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | past | boy | vn act-114-1 «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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