Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 69
The Brahmans had never eaten so rich or so big a dinner before.
What happens: not eat · To what, where: Brahmans
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: 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 Brahmans | det |
| 2 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 eaten | advmod |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 rich | advmod |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eaten | xcomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 big | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 big | advmod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eaten | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dinner | det |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 big | nsubj |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 big | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | past · perfect · passive | the Brahmans | rich property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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