Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 53
They were about to go away when three other Brahmans came up and one of them asked which was Magadha’s house.
Who acts: inhabitants, three other Brahmans, one · What happens: go away, come up, ask, be · To what, where: house · 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 (inhabitants, three other Brahmans, one), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Brahmans | nummod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Brahmans | amod |
| 10 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 one | nmod |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 house | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 house | cop |
| 20 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Magadha | case |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | about, away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | three other Brahmans | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | one of inhabitants | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Magadha's house | which nsubj; Magadha nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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