Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 53
Why, every one knows that it is not wise to stand and watch two people fighting.”
Who acts: one, two people · What happens: know, not be, stand, watch, fight · To what, where: 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 (one, 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wise | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wise | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wise | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 wise | advmod |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knows | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stand | mark |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wise | csubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watch | cc |
| 14 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stand | conj |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 people | nummod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 watch | obj |
| 17 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 people | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | every one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stand | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | watch | infinitive | two people | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fight | 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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