Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 45
Lastly she went home and ate some cold, stale food, which she had put by on purpose.
Who acts: Magadha, purpose · What happens: go, eat, put · To what, where: cold stale food
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 (Magadha, purpose), 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 | Lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ate | cc |
| 6 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 food | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 food | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cold | punct |
| 10 | stale | stale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 food | amod |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ate | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 put | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 food | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 purpose | case |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 purpose | case |
| 19 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Magadha | home, lastly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | Magadha not said here | some cold stale food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | past · perfect · passive | purpose | some cold stale food | Magadha nsubj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal |
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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