Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 87
The old couple preferring riches to immortality sold the apple to the regent for a great price.
Who acts: old couple · What happens: prefer, sell · To what, where: riches, apple, regent
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 (old couple), 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 couple | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 couple | amod |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sold | nsubj |
| 4 | preferring | prefer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 couple | acl |
| 5 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 preferring | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 immortality | case |
| 7 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 preferring | obl |
| 8 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 apple | det |
| 10 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sold | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 regent | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 regent | det |
| 13 | regent | regent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sold | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 price | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 price | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 price | amod |
| 17 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sold | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | gerund | the old couple not said here | riches | to immortality | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sell | past | the old couple | the apple | the regent | for a great price | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent apple=Theme to regent=Recipient for price=Asset |
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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