Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 55
They sorrowfully told their master of their discomfiture.
Who acts: austerities · What happens: tell, discomfit · To what, where: master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (austerities), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 discomfiture | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 discomfiture | nmod:poss |
| 8 | discomfiture | discomfiture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 master | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | austerities = austerity | austerities's master of austerities's discomfiture | sorrowfully property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient | |||
| 2 | discomfit | austerities = austerity | nom discomfiture «feeling transitive»: 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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