Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 6
They had two sons already, but had long passed the age when married couples hope for more children.
Who acts: Ratno, married couples · What happens: have, pass, marry, hope · To what, where: two sons, age
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 (Ratno, married couples), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sons | nummod |
| 4 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 2 had | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 passed | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | aux |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 passed | advmod |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 age | det |
| 12 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obj |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 hope | mark |
| 14 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 couples | amod |
| 15 | couples | couple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hope | nsubj |
| 16 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 children | case |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hope | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ratno | two sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass | past · perfect | Ratno not said here | the age | long property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme age=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | marry | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | hope | present | married couples | for more children | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for child=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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