Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 45
Vidhya then put two pice on the counter and said he would take half an anna’s worth.
Who acts: Vidhya · What happens: put, say, take · To what, where: two pice, counter, worth · 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 (Vidhya), 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 | Vidhya | Vidhya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pice | nummod |
| 5 | pice | pice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 counter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 counter | det |
| 8 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 18 worth | det:predet |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 anna | det |
| 16 | anna | anna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 worth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 anna | case |
| 18 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Vidhya | two pice | the counter | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pice=Theme on counter=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Vidhya not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | would | VIDHYA | a anna's worth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worth=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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