Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 13

He spent the few annas he had in the world in buying some writing paper, an ink pot, a bottle of ink, a pen and an empty box.

Who acts: boy · What happens: spend, have, buy · To what, where: few annas, world, writing paper

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 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 annas	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 annas	amod
5	annas	anna	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spent	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spent	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 buying	mark
12	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 had	advcl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 paper	det
14	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 paper	compound
15	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buying	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pot	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pot	det
18	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pot	compound
19	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 paper	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bottle	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bottle	det
22	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 paper	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 ink	case
24	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bottle	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pen	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pen	det
27	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 paper	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 box	cc
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 box	det
30	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 box	amod
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 paper	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spend	past	boy	the few annas		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anna=Asset
2	have	past	boy		the world	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	buy	gerund	boy not said here	some writing paper and a ink pot and a bottle of ink and a pen and a empty box		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 13