Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 18
The Brahman boy thought that he would do as the green-grocers did and when any one passed, he called out at the top of his voice, “Wisdom!
Who acts: Brahman boy, boy, green grocers, one · What happens: think, do, pass, call out · To what, where: Wisdom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Brahman boy, boy, green grocers, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | compound |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 did | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grocers | det |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grocers | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 green | punct |
| 13 | grocers | grocer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 passed | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 passed | advmod |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passed | nsubj |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 did | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | nsubj |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 called | compound:prt |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 top | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 top | det |
| 26 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 voice | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 voice | nmod:poss |
| 29 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 top | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Wisdom | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Wisdom | punct |
| 32 | Wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Brahman boy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | would | boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past | the green grocers | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pass | participle | any one | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | call out speech: assert | past | boy | Wisdom | at the top of boy's voice | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at top=Stimulus |
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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