Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Udero Lal., sentence 60
This went on for several days until his parents grew more and more curious to know how he got grain many times its value for the cooked gram.
Who acts: This, parents, Udero, grain · What happens: go on, grow, know, get, cook, value · To what, where: grain · 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 (This, parents, Udero, grain), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 grew | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 parents | nmod:poss |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 grew | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 curious | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 curious | advmod |
| 14 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 curious | csubj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 got | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | ccomp |
| 20 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obj |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 times | amod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 got | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 value | nmod:poss |
| 24 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 times | nmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 gram | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gram | det |
| 27 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 gram | amod |
| 28 | gram | gram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 value | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | This | day | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Udero's parents | curious property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | get | past | Udero | grain | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | value | grain | for the cooked gram | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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