Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 90
He in turn presented it to a dancing girl, who sold it back to Brartrahari.
Who acts: regent, dancing girl · What happens: present, sell · To what, where: apple, dancing girl, turn
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 (regent, dancing girl), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 presented | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 turn | case |
| 3 | turn | turn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | obl |
| 4 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 presented | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | compound |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sold | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sold | nsubj |
| 12 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 girl | acl:relcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sold | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 sold | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Brartrahari | case |
| 16 | Brartrahari | Brartrahari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 back | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | regent | apple | a dancing girl | turn | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to girl=Recipient | ||
| 2 | sell | past | a dancing girl | apple | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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