Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 3
He might have risen to great learning, had his father lived.
Who acts: father · What happens: rise, have, live · To what, where: Brahman
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 (father), 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 | 4 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 risen | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 risen | aux |
| 4 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 learning | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 learning | amod |
| 7 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 risen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 risen | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | might · perfect · passive | Brahman | to great learning result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent to learning=Result | ||||
| 2 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | live | past | Brahman's father | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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