Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 52
Even if the door was opened, there would be nothing inside to eat.”
What happens: open, eat · To what, where: door
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: 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 6 opened | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 opened | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | aux:pass |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 be | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 be | expl |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 opened | advcl |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 be | nsubj |
| 12 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 11 nothing | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nothing | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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