Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 21
But after shedding some tears, she took courage and began to earn her living as a day labourer.
Who acts: Rupvati · What happens: shed, take, begin, earn, live · To what, where: tears, courage, living
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rupvati), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 shedding | mark |
| 3 | shedding | shed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 tears | det |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shedding | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shedding | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 earn | mark |
| 13 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 living | nmod:poss |
| 15 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 earn | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 labourer | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 labourer | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 labourer | compound |
| 19 | labourer | labourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 earn | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shed | gerund | Rupvati not said here | some tears | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Rupvati | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Rupvati not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | earn | to-infinitive | Rupvati not said here | Rupvati's living | as a day labourer | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme | |||
| 5 | live | Rupvati | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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