Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 67
The Nagar signed the document and went away with his two pice, very pleased to get them back so cheaply.
Who acts: Nagar · What happens: sign, go away, get back · To what, where: document, passersby
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Nagar | det |
| 2 | Nagar | Nagar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 signed | nsubj |
| 3 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 document | det |
| 5 | document | document | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 signed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 signed | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 pice | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pice | nummod |
| 12 | pice | pice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleased | punct |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 pleased | advmod |
| 15 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 went | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pleased | xcomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 cheaply | advmod |
| 21 | cheaply | cheaply | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | the Nagar | the document | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent document=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go away | past | the Nagar not said here | with Nagar's two pice; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with pice=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | get back | to-infinitive | the Nagar not said here | passersby | cheaply property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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