Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 3
I do not claim for them any merit beyond the fact that they touch the fringe of an unexplored country.
Who acts: I, articles · What happens: not claim, touch · To what, where: merit, fringe
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, articles), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 claim | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 claim | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 claim | advmod |
| 4 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 claim | obl |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 merit | det |
| 8 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 claim | obj |
| 9 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 11 fact | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fact | det |
| 11 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 claim | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 touch | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 touch | nsubj |
| 14 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 claim | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fringe | det |
| 16 | fringe | fringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touch | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 19 | unexplored | unexplored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | amod |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fringe | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not claim speech: other | present · do-support | I | any merit | for articles = article; beyond the fact | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent merit=Topic | |||
| 2 | touch | present | articles = article | the fringe of a unexplored country | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fringe=Co-Theme |
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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