Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 12
He went into the town and hired the smallest shop he could find.
Who acts: boy · What happens: go, hire, find · To what, where: town, smallest shop
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hired | cc |
| 7 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shop | det |
| 9 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 shop | amod |
| 10 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hired | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shop | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | boy | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hire | past | boy not said here | the smallest shop | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | could | boy | the smallest shop not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Topic |
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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