Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 32

He was thus rather better off than when he had been an unpaid clerk; but he knew that when the novelty wore off, he would get no more customers.

Who acts: last, novelty · What happens: be, know, wear off, get · To what, where: more customers

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 (last, novelty), 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	5 better	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 better	compound:prt
7	than	than	ADP	_	14 clerk	case
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 clerk	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 clerk	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 clerk	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 clerk	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 clerk	det
13	unpaid	unpaid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clerk	amod
14	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 better	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 knew	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 better	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 wore	mark
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 wore	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 novelty	det
22	novelty	novelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wore	nsubj
23	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knew	advcl
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 wore	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 get	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 get	aux
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knew	conj
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 customers	amod
31	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 get	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	last		good, thus property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	last		than a unpaid clerk	tree rules
3	know	past	last			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	wear off	past	the novelty			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	get	would	last	more customers		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer customer=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 32