Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 8
In course of time the good old Brahman died and after his death the family became so poor that the two brothers resolved to leave Avanti and seek their fortune elsewhere.
Who acts: good old Brahman, family, two brothers, Brahman · What happens: die, become, resolve, leave, seek · To what, where: Avanti, fortune
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 (good old Brahman, family, two brothers, Brahman), 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 | In | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 time | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 In | fixed |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 died | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Brahman | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Brahman | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Brahman | amod |
| 8 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 died | nsubj |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 death | nmod:poss |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 family | det |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 died | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 poor | advmod |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 became | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 resolved | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 brothers | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 brothers | nummod |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 resolved | nsubj |
| 23 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 poor | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 leave | mark |
| 25 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 resolved | xcomp |
| 26 | Avanti | Avanti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 leave | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 seek | cc |
| 28 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 leave | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seek | obj |
| 31 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 28 seek | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the good old Brahman | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the family | after Brahman's death | poor property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | resolve | past | the two brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | the two brothers not said here | Avanti | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avanti=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seek | infinitive | the two brothers not said here | brothers's fortune | elsewhere property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | |||
| 6 | die | Brahman | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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