Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 69
They both went to the same grocer and both tried to buy the same article.
Who acts: queens, both · What happens: go, try, buy · To what, where: same grocer, same article
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 (queens, both), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 grocer | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grocer | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grocer | amod |
| 7 | grocer | grocer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tried | cc |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 tried | nsubj |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 buy | mark |
| 12 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 article | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 article | amod |
| 15 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buy | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | queens = queen | the same grocer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grocer=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | try | past | both | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | both not said here | the same article | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=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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