Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 62
“Why do you not serve the dinner for the 108 Brahmans?” asked the newcomer.
Who acts: you, newcomer · What happens: not serve, ask · To what, where: dinner · 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 (you, newcomer), 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 | _ | 6 serve | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 serve | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 serve | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 serve | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 serve | advmod |
| 6 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dinner | det |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 serve | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Brahmans | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Brahmans | det |
| 11 | 108 | 108 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Brahmans | nummod |
| 12 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 dinner | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 serve | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 serve | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 newcomer | det |
| 17 | newcomer | newcomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not serve in a quote | present · do-support | you | the dinner | for the 108 Brahmans | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme for brahman=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the newcomer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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