Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 14
Over the shop he got painted the words “WISDOM SELLER.”
What happens: paint · To what, where: boy, 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: 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 3 shop | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shop | det |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 painted | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 painted | aux:pass |
| 6 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 painted | obj |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 SELLER | punct |
| 10 | WISDOM | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 SELLER | compound |
| 11 | SELLER | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 painted | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past · passive | boy | the shop | the words and WISDOM SELLER obj | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient word=Result |
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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