Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 57

Nothing further happened until Udero Lal was a little boy of six, when his mother Devki thought that he might help his father by hawking cooked gram too.

Who acts: Nothing, Udero, mother · What happens: happen, be, think, help, hawk, cook · To what, where: little boy, father, cooked gram · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Udero Lal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, Udero, mother), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 happened	nsubj
2	further	further	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 boy	mark
5	Udero	Udero	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 boy	nsubj
6	Lal	Lal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Udero	flat
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 boy	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	advcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 six	case
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 boy	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 thought	advmod
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thought	nsubj
17	Devki	Devki	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 mother	appos
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 help	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 help	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 help	aux
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 help	obj
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 hawking	mark
26	hawking	hawk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 help	advcl
27	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 gram	amod
28	gram	gram	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hawking	obj
29	too	too	ADV	_	26 hawking	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Nothing			further property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Udero	a little boy		of six	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Udero's mother				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	help	might	Udero		Udero's father		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Beneficiary
5	hawk	gerund	Udero not said here	cooked gram			vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gram=Location
6	cook	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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, Udero Lal., sentence 57

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 57