Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 58
She gave him a tiny jar of cooked gram and bade him hawk it through the streets of Nasarpur, taking payment either in cash or in kind.
Who acts: mother, tiny jar · What happens: give, cook, hawk, take · To what, where: Udero, gram, streets, payment, cash
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 (mother, tiny jar), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 jar | det |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jar | amod |
| 6 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hawk | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gram | case |
| 8 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gram | amod |
| 9 | gram | gram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jar | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bade | cc |
| 11 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gram | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gram | nmod |
| 13 | hawk | hawk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hawk | obj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 streets | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 streets | det |
| 17 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hawk | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Nasarpur | case |
| 19 | Nasarpur | Nasarpur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 streets | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taking | punct |
| 21 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hawk | advcl |
| 22 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taking | obj |
| 23 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 taking | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 cash | case |
| 25 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taking | obl |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 kind | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 kind | case |
| 28 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cash | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | mother | Udero | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | hawk | present | a tiny jar of cooked gram Udero and bade | gram | the streets of Nasarpur | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Location | |||
| 4 | take | gerund | a tiny jar of cooked gram Udero and bade not said here | payment | cash or kind | either property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent payment=Value in cash=Location |
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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