Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 84
As a last resort, the Nagar agreed and father and son went to the Brahman boy’s shop and told him what had befallen Vidhya.
Who acts: Nagar, father · What happens: agree, go, tell, befall · To what, where: shop, father, Vidhya · 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 (Nagar, father), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 resort | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 resort | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 resort | amod |
| 4 | resort | resort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agreed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 resort | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Nagar | det |
| 7 | Nagar | Nagar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 agreed | nsubj |
| 8 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 son | cc |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 father | conj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 agreed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 shop | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 16 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 boy | compound |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shop | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 boy | case |
| 19 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 befallen | aux |
| 25 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 told | ccomp |
| 26 | Vidhya | Vidhya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 befallen | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Nagar | as a last resort | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | father and son | the Brahman boy's shop | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | father and son not said here | father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | befall | past · perfect · passive | Vidhya | what nsubj:pass | 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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