Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 54
Hopes of a good meal once more sprang up in the breasts of the 108 hungry guests and they pointed it out to the newcomers.
Who acts: Hopes, good meal · What happens: spring up, point out, hope · To what, where: breasts, meal, newcomers
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 (Hopes, good meal), 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 | Hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 meal | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 meal | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meal | amod |
| 5 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hopes | nmod |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 sprang | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 sprang | advmod |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 sprang | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 breasts | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 breasts | det |
| 12 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sprang | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 guests | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 guests | det |
| 15 | 108 | 108 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 guests | nummod |
| 16 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 guests | amod |
| 17 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 breasts | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pointed | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pointed | nsubj |
| 20 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sprang | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pointed | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 pointed | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 newcomers | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 newcomers | det |
| 25 | newcomers | newcomer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pointed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | Hopes of a good meal | the breasts of the 108 hungry guests | once property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breast=Location | |||
| 2 | point out | past | Hopes = hope | meal | the newcomers | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to newcomer=Recipient | |||
| 3 | hope | a good meal | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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