Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 95
“Vidhya should go to the king,” said the Brahman boy, “when he is in a merry mood and tell him the whole story.
Who acts: Vidhya, Brahman boy, boy · What happens: go, say, be, tell · To what, where: merry mood, whole story, 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 (Vidhya, Brahman boy, boy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | Vidhya | Vidhya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 12 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | compound |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mood | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 mood | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 mood | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 mood | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 mood | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mood | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mood | det |
| 21 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mood | amod |
| 22 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tell | cc |
| 24 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 tell | iobj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 story | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 story | amod |
| 28 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tell | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | should | Vidhya | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Brahman boy and a merry mood | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | boy | a merry mood | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the Brahman boy and a merry mood not said here | the whole story | boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=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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