Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 87
On getting the money, he told Vidhya to feign insanity and to pretend that he did not understand what the king asked him.
Who acts: boy, king · What happens: get, tell, feign, pretend, not understand, ask · To what, where: money, Vidhya, insanity, boy · 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 (boy, king), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 getting | mark |
| 2 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 told | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 money | det |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 getting | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 getting | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Vidhya | Vidhya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 feign | mark |
| 10 | feign | feign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 11 | insanity | insanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feign | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pretend | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pretend | mark |
| 14 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 feign | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 understand | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 understand | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 understand | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 understand | advmod |
| 19 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pretend | advcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 asked | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asked | nsubj |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 understand | ccomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asked | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | boy not said here | the money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | boy | Vidhya | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent vidhya=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | feign not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | insanity | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insanity=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pretend | to-infinitive | boy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not understand | past · do-support | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | boy | what obj | 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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