Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 56
Cheat! you did my son out of his money, just because he was a foolish boy.
Who acts: you, Brahman · What happens: do, be · To what, where: son, money, foolish boy
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 (you, Brahman), 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 | Cheat | cheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cheat | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 money | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 money | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 money | nmod:poss |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 boy | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 boy | advmod |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 boy | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 boy | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 boy | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 17 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | you | my son | Brahman's money | Cheat vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | is a | past | Brahman | a foolish boy | tree rules |
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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