Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 51
At last the Brahmans got very angry and said “What is the use of waiting outside this wretched little hut?
Who acts: Brahmans, use · What happens: get, say, be, wait · To what, where: last, use, wretched little hut · 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 (Brahmans, use), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Brahmans | det |
| 4 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 use | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 use | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 use | det |
| 14 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 waiting | mark |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 use | acl |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 21 hut | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 hut | nsubj |
| 19 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hut | amod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hut | amod |
| 21 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waiting | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Brahmans | last | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Brahmans not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the use | What nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | gerund | the use not said here | wretched little hut this | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside hut=Location |
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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