Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 36

The smaller antiquities include a quantity of pottery—painted and plain, terra cotta, toys, bangles of blue glass, paste and shell, new types of coins (or tokens), curious stone rings and dice.”

Who acts: smaller antiquities · What happens: include, paint, type · To what, where: quantity, coins

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 (smaller antiquities), 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	3 antiquities	det
2	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 antiquities	amod
3	antiquities	antiquity	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 include	nsubj
4	include	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 quantity	det
6	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 include	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 pottery	case
8	pottery	pottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quantity	nmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 painted	punct
10	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 quantity	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 plain	cc
12	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 painted	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cotta	punct
14	terra	terra	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cotta	compound
15	cotta	cotta	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quantity	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 toys	punct
17	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cotta	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bangles	punct
19	bangles	bangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 toys	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 glass	case
21	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 glass	amod
22	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bangles	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 paste	punct
24	paste	paste	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 glass	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shell	cc
26	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 glass	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 types	punct
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 types	amod
29	types	type	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 toys	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 coins	case
31	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 types	nmod
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 tokens	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 tokens	cc
34	tokens	token	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 coins	appos
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 tokens	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 rings	punct
37	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 rings	amod
38	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rings	compound
39	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 quantity	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 dice	cc
41	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rings	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 include	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 include	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	include	present	the smaller antiquities	a quantity of pottery and terra cotta and curious stone rings and dice	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme
2	paint	participle		a quantity of pottery and terra cotta and curious stone rings and dice not said here	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	type			coins	nom type «cognition transitive»: of=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 36