Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 99
Then he sent for the Brahman boy and asked him whether he would sell him wisdom and, if so, at what price.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, ask, sell · To what, where: king, wisdom, boy
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | compound |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 sell | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sell | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sell | aux |
| 14 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sell | iobj |
| 16 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sell | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 so | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | mark |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 sell | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 what | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 what | case |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 24 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 what | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | king | then | for the Brahman boy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | king not said here | king | what price parataxis | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | sell not said to happen | would | king | wisdom | boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wisdom=Theme |
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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