Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 54
In a great rage the Nagar walked to the Brahman’s shop and began to call out “Rogue!
Who acts: Nagar · What happens: walk, begin, call out · To what, where: great rage, Rogue
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 (Nagar), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 rage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rage | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rage | amod |
| 4 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Nagar | det |
| 6 | Nagar | Nagar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 shop | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Brahman | det |
| 10 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shop | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Brahman | case |
| 12 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walked | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 call | mark |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 call | compound:prt |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Rogue | punct |
| 19 | Rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 call | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the Nagar | a great rage | to the Brahman's shop result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shop=Result | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the Nagar not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Nagar not said here | Rogue | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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