Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 47
After she had invited them, she suddenly remembered that she had no money with which to buy them food, still less to give them alms afterwards.
Who acts: Magadha · What happens: invite, remember, have, buy, give · To what, where: Magadha, less, money, displeasure, alms · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 invited | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | aux |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 remembered | advcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invited | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 remembered | nsubj |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 remembered | advmod |
| 9 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 remembered | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 money | det |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 buy | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 buy | mark |
| 18 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 money | acl:relcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 buy | obj |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buy | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 less | punct |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 less | advmod |
| 23 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 remembered | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 give | mark |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 less | acl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 give | obj |
| 28 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 25 give | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past · perfect · passive | Magadha | displeasure obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | past | Magadha | less | suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | Magadha | no money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | Magadha not said here | displeasure | with no money; food obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary food=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | alms | displeasure | afterwards property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient alm=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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