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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 83

At last Vidhya said “Let us ask the Brahman boy, who sells wisdom; if he really has any to sell, he may help me out.”

Who acts: us, Brahman boy, VIDHYA · What happens: say, let, ask, sell, have, help out · To what, where: last Vidhya, us, Brahman boy, wisdom, any, me · 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 (us, Brahman boy, VIDHYA), 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

caseamodoblpunctccompobjxcompdetcompoundobjpunctnsubjacl:relclobjpunctmarknsubjadvmodccompobjmarkaclpunctnsubjauxparataxisobjcompound:prtpunctpunctrootAtADPlastADJVidhyaPROPNsaidVERB“PUNCTLetVERBusPRONaskVERBtheDETBrahmanNOUNboyNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONsellsVERBwisdomNOUN;PUNCTifSCONJhePRONreallyADVhasVERBanyDETtoPARTsellVERB,PUNCThePRONmayAUXhelpVERBmePRONoutADP.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_3 Vidhyacase
2lastlastADJDegree=Pos3 Vidhyaamod
3VidhyaVidhyaPROPNNumber=Sing4 saidobl
4saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5“"PUNCT_6 Letpunct
6LetletVERBVerbForm=Inf4 saidccomp
7uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs6 Letobj
8askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf6 Letxcomp
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 boydet
10BrahmanbrahmanNOUNNumber=Sing11 boycompound
11boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing8 askobj
12,,PUNCT_14 sellspunct
13whowhoPRONPronType=Rel14 sellsnsubj
14sellssellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 boyacl:relcl
15wisdomwisdomNOUNNumber=Sing14 sellsobj
16;;PUNCT_20 haspunct
17ififSCONJ_20 hasmark
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 hasnsubj
19reallyreallyADV_20 hasadvmod
20hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 saidccomp
21anyanyDETPronType=Ind20 hasobj
22totoPART_23 sellmark
23sellsellVERBVerbForm=Inf21 anyacl
24,,PUNCT_27 helppunct
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 helpnsubj
26maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin27 helpaux
27helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf20 hasparataxis
28meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs27 helpobj
29outoutADP_27 helpcompound:prt
30..PUNCT_20 haspunct
31”"PUNCT_20 haspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastlast Vidhyavn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2let in a quoteinfinitiveustree rules
3ask speech: ask in a quoteinfinitiveus not said herethe Brahman boyvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
4sell in a quotepresentthe Brahman boywisdomvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme
5have a condition, not said to happen, in a quotepresentVIDHYAanyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient
6sell in a quoteto-infinitivevn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7help out in a quotemayVIDHYAmevn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary

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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