Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 55
“We are guests,” they said, “but she has shut her door in our faces.
Who acts: We, guests, door · What happens: be, say, shut · To what, where: guests, door, faces · 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 (We, guests, door), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 guests | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 guests | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 guests | cop |
| 4 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guests | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 guests | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 shut | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shut | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shut | aux |
| 14 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 door | nmod:poss |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shut | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 faces | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 faces | nmod:poss |
| 19 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shut | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | We | guests | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | guests | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shut in a quote | present · perfect | door | door's door | our faces | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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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