Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 72
The guests thought this a very odd “dakshina” but when they opened the leaves they found them full of diamonds and pearls and rubies.
Who acts: guests · What happens: think, open, find · To what, where: this, leaves
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 (guests), 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 guests | det |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dakshina | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 odd | advmod |
| 7 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dakshina | amod |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dakshina | punct |
| 9 | dakshina | dakshina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dakshina | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 opened | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leaves | det |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 opened | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | obj |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 found | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 diamonds | case |
| 22 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 full | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pearls | cc |
| 24 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 diamonds | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rubies | cc |
| 26 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 diamonds | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the guests | this | a odd dakshina xcomp | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | past | guests = guest | the leaves | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | guests = guest | leaves = leaf | full property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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