Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 22
At first the passersby could not make out what he meant.
Who acts: passersby, Brahman · What happens: not make out, mean
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 (passersby, Brahman), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 make | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 passersby | det |
| 4 | passersby | passersby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 make | compound:prt |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 meant | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 meant | nsubj |
| 11 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make out | could | the passersby | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | mean | past | Brahman | what obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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