Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 63
The Brahman said “No, I said I would give you back your money if you gave me back my wisdom.
Who acts: Brahman, you · What happens: say, give back · To what, where: money, you, wisdom, Brahman · 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 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 5 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 said | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 No | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | back | back | ADP | _ | 11 give | compound:prt |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 money | nmod:poss |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 gave | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | advcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 gave | advmod |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Brahman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Brahman = brahman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give back in a quote | would | the Brahman = brahman | your money | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 4 | give back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | my wisdom | the Brahman = brahman | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wisdom=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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