Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 5
The boy had to leave school and try to keep his mother and younger brothers and sisters.
Who acts: boy · What happens: have, leave, try, keep · To what, where: school, mother
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), 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 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 try | cc |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 leave | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 try | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brothers | cc |
| 14 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 brothers | amod |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mother | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sisters | cc |
| 17 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brothers | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | school | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | the boy not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | boy's mother and younger brothers and sisters | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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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