Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 48
Vidhya went home and said to his father “I have bought some wisdom for two pice and it is tied inside my scarf.
Who acts: Vidhya · What happens: go, say, buy, tie · To what, where: father, wisdom, scarf · 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bought | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bought | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bought | aux |
| 12 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 wisdom | det |
| 14 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bought | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 pice | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 pice | nummod |
| 17 | pice | pice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bought | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tied | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 tied | aux:pass |
| 21 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 bought | conj |
| 22 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 24 scarf | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 scarf | nmod:poss |
| 24 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tied | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Vidhya | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Vidhya not said here | VIDHYA's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | buy in a quote | present · perfect | Vidhya | some wisdom | for two pice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme for pice=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | tie in a quote | present · passive | Wisdom | my scarf | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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