Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 16
To supply his limited needs he cultivated a little rice field.
Who acts: rishi · What happens: supply, need, cultivate · To what, where: limited, little rice field
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rishi), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 supply | mark |
| 2 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 needs | csubj |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 limited | nmod:poss |
| 4 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 supply | obj |
| 5 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cultivated | nsubj |
| 7 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 needs | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 field | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 field | amod |
| 10 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 field | compound |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cultivated | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | supply | to-infinitive | rishi's limited | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limited=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | need | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | cultivate | past | rishi | a little rice field | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Product |
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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