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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 50

His father did not understand, but undid the knot and finding the paper read “It is not wise to stand and watch two people fighting.”

Who acts: father, finding, two people · What happens: not understand, undo, find, read, not be, stand · To what, where: knot, paper, 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 (father, finding, 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

nmod:possnsubjauxadvmodpunctccccompdetobjcccsubjdetobjconjpunctexplcopadvmodccompmarkcsubjccconjnummodobjaclpunctpunctrootHisPRONfatherNOUNdidAUXnotPARTunderstandVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJundidVERBtheDETknotNOUNandCCONJfindingVERBtheDETpaperNOUNreadVERB“PUNCTItPRONisAUXnotPARTwiseADJtoPARTstandVERBandCCONJwatchVERBtwoNUMpeopleNOUNfightingVERB.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 fathernmod:poss
2fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing5 understandnsubj
3diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 understandaux
4notnotPARTPolarity=Neg5 understandadvmod
5understandunderstandVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
6,,PUNCT_8 undidpunct
7butbutCCONJ_8 undidcc
8undidundoVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 understandccomp
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 knotdet
10knotknotNOUNNumber=Sing8 undidobj
11andandCCONJ_15 readcc
12findingfindVERBVerbForm=Ger15 readcsubj
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 paperdet
14paperpaperNOUNNumber=Sing12 findingobj
15readreadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 undidconj
16“"PUNCT_20 wisepunct
17ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 wiseexpl
18isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 wisecop
19notnotPARTPolarity=Neg20 wiseadvmod
20wisewiseADJDegree=Pos15 readccomp
21totoPART_22 standmark
22standstandVERBVerbForm=Inf20 wisecsubj
23andandCCONJ_24 watchcc
24watchwatchVERBVerbForm=Inf22 standconj
25twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card26 peoplenummod
26peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur24 watchobj
27fightingfightVERBVerbForm=Ger26 peopleacl
28..PUNCT_5 understandpunct
29”"PUNCT_5 understandpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not understandpast · do-supportVIDHYA's fathervn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2undopastthe knotvn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient
3findgerundthe papervn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic
4readpastfindingvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5not is in a quotepresentfinding not said herewise propertytree rules
6stand in a quoteto-infinitivevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7watch in a quoteinfinitivetwo peoplevn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
8fight in a quotegerundtwo people not said herevn 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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