Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 75
One of the maids noticed him and called on him to witness that the other maid had struck her.
Who acts: One · What happens: notice, call, strike · To what, where: boy, witness, other maid · 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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 maids | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maids | det |
| 4 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 noticed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 witness | mark |
| 12 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 struck | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maid | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maid | amod |
| 16 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 struck | aux |
| 18 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 called | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 struck | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | One | boy | the maids nsubj | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | call | past | One not said here | witness | on boy | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | strike | past · perfect · passive | the other maid | city obj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient she=Result |
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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