Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 44
The Brahman boy said “I sell not by weight, but by quality.”
Who acts: Brahman boy · What happens: say, not sell · To what, where: weight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Brahman boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | compound |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sell | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sell | nsubj |
| 7 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sell | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 weight | case |
| 10 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sell | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quality | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 quality | cc |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 quality | case |
| 14 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 quality | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 quality | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Brahman boy | quality ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not sell in a quote | present | the Brahman boy = boy | weight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=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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