Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 76
The other maid retorted that so far from giving blows, she had received any number of them; and she, too, called on Vidhya to be her witness.
Who acts: other maid, maid · What happens: retort, give, receive, call, be · To what, where: blows, number, maid, Vidhya, witness · 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 (other maid, maid), 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 | 3 maid | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maid | amod |
| 3 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 retorted | nsubj |
| 4 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 received | mark |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 received | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 giving | mark |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 far | advcl |
| 10 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 giving | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 far | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 received | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 received | aux |
| 14 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 retorted | advcl |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 number | det |
| 16 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 received | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 number | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 called | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 called | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 she | punct |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 called | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 too | punct |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 retorted | parataxis |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 Vidhya | case |
| 27 | Vidhya | Vidhya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 called | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 witness | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 witness | cop |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 witness | nmod:poss |
| 31 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 retorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retort speech: other | past | the other maid | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | gerund | maid not said here | blows | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive | past · perfect | maid | any number of blows | far property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | |||
| 4 | call | participle · passive | maid | Vidhya | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | maid's witness | maid nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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