Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 57
The Brahman who had spoken, said “Yes, I am Magadha’s brother and these two are our kinsmen.
Who acts: Brahman, these · What happens: speak, say, be · To what, where: two kinsmen · 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 (Brahman, these), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Brahman | det |
| 2 | Brahman | brahman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | aux |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Brahman | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brahman | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 brother | punct |
| 9 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 15 brother | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Yes | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Magadha | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Magadha | cop |
| 13 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | compound |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Magadha | case |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kinsmen | cc |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 kinsmen | nsubj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 kinsmen | nummod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 kinsmen | cop |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brother | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | the Brahman | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Brahman | Magadha brother and our two kinsmen ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Brahman = brahman | 's Magadha | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | these | our two kinsmen | our 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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