Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 31

For several days he made no money at all; but at last the whole city got to hear of the new shop and four or five passersby stopped and bought an anna or two worth of wisdom.

Who acts: father, last, passersby · What happens: make, get, hear, stop, buy · To what, where: money, all, four, anna

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, last, 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 money	det
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 money	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 got	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 got	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 city	amod
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 last	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hear	mark
19	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 got	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 shop	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shop	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shop	amod
23	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hear	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stopped	cc
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 stopped	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 five	cc
27	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 four	conj
28	passersby	passerby	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stopped	nsubj
29	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shop	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bought	cc
31	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stopped	conj
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 anna	det
33	anna	anna	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bought	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 worth	cc
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 worth	nummod
36	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 anna	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 wisdom	case
38	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 worth	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	father	no money	all	day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Product
2	get	past	last the whole city					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hear	to-infinitive	last the whole city not said here				of the new shop	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of shop=Stimulus
4	stop	past	passersby	four				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	buy	past	passersby not said here	a anna or two worth of wisdom				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anna=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 31

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 31