Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 82
The two talked the matter over all that day and all the next night, but they could not find a way of escape.
Who acts: two, grocers · What happens: talk, not find · To what, where: matter, way
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 (two, grocers), 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 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talked | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det:predet |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 night | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 night | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 night | amod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 find | advmod |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 talked | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 escape | case |
| 24 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 way | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | the two | the matter | day | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent matter=Patient | |||
| 2 | not find | could | grocers = grocer | a way of escape | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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