Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 62

At once the Nagar threw the paper at the Brahman and cried: “Now give me my money!”

Who acts: Nagar · What happens: throw, cry, give · To what, where: paper, Brahman, money, Nagar · 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 (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	At	at	ADP	_	2 once	case
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 threw	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Nagar	det
4	Nagar	Nagar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 threw	nsubj
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 paper	det
7	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 Brahman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Brahman	det
10	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
15	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 give	advmod
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 money	nmod:poss
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	throw	past	the Nagar	the paper		the Brahman		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent paper=Theme at once=Destination
2	cry speech: express	past	the Nagar not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	infinitive		my money	the Nagar = nagar		now	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient money=Theme

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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 62