Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 77
At last they separated and the maid-servants and Vidhya went to their several homes.
Who acts: blows, maid servants · What happens: separate, go · To what, where: last, several homes
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 (blows, maid servants), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 separated | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 separated | nsubj |
| 4 | separated | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 servants | det |
| 7 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 servants | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 maid | punct |
| 9 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Vidhya | cc |
| 11 | Vidhya | Vidhya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 servants | conj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 separated | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 homes | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 homes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 homes | amod |
| 16 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | past | blows = blow | last | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the maid servants and Vidhya | blows's several homes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location |
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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