Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 46
The boy wrote on a piece of paper “It is not wise to stand and watch two people fighting.”
Who acts: boy, two people · What happens: write, not be, stand, watch, fight · To what, where: piece, two people · 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 (boy, two people), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 piece | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 paper | case |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wise | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wise | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wise | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wise | advmod |
| 13 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wrote | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 stand | mark |
| 15 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wise | csubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 watch | cc |
| 17 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stand | conj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 people | nummod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 watch | obj |
| 20 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 people | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wise | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the boy | a piece of paper | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on piece=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | the boy not said here | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | watch in a quote | infinitive | two people | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fight in a quote | gerund | two people not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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