Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 64
“I know that,” replied poor Magadha, “but what can I do?
Who acts: poor Magadha · What happens: know, reply, do · 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 (poor Magadha), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 3 know | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Magadha | amod |
| 9 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | poor Magadha = magadha | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | poor Magadha | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | poor Magadha = magadha | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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