Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 58
The Brahman kept his temper and said quietly: “Why are you so angry about nothing?
Who acts: Brahman, you · What happens: keep, say, be, temper · To what, where: temper · 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 (Brahman, you), 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 Brahman | det |
| 2 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 temper | nmod:poss |
| 5 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 8 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 11 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 angry | advmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 angry | nsubj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 angry | advmod |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kept | parataxis |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 nothing | case |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 angry | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the Brahman | Brahman's temper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Brahman not said here | quietly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | about nothing; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | temper | Brahman | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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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