Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 170
One day she sent her maid-servant to a great distance to get a certain kind of fish.
Who acts: wife · What happens: send, get · To what, where: maid servant, certain kind
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Jinda Pir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 servant | nmod:poss |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servant | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 maid | punct |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 distance | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 distance | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 distance | amod |
| 12 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 kind | det |
| 16 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kind | amod |
| 17 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fish | case |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kind | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | wife | wife's maid servant | day | to a great distance | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme to distance=Destination | ||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | wife not said here | a certain kind of fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus |
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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