Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 23
When they understood, they did not think of buying his wares.
Who acts: passersby · What happens: understand, not think, buy · To what, where: wares
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 understood | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 think | advmod |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 buying | mark |
| 10 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 think | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wares | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 buying | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | passersby | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | passersby | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | buy | gerund | passersby not said here | Brahman's wares | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=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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