Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 37
But in spite of this grand name, the son was just as stupid as the father.
Who acts: son · What happens: be, spite · To what, where: spite, grand name
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 (son), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stupid | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 spite | case |
| 3 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stupid | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 name | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 name | amod |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spite | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spite | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stupid | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stupid | cop |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 stupid | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 stupid | advmod |
| 14 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 father | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 father | det |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stupid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stupid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the son | spite of this grand name | as the father; stupid property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spite | this grand name | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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