Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 28

Once the great Jewish sage was preaching to his people with such wisdom and eloquence that at the close of his sermon, they asked him whether there was any man in the world wiser than he was.

Who acts: great Jewish sage, wisdom, man · What happens: preach, ask, be · To what, where: people, such wisdom, sage, close

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 (great Jewish sage, wisdom, man), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	7 preaching	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sage	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sage	amod
4	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sage	amod
5	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 preaching	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 preaching	aux
7	preaching	preach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 people	nmod:poss
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 preaching	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 wisdom	case
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wisdom	amod
13	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eloquence	cc
15	eloquence	eloquence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wisdom	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 asked	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 close	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 close	det
19	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asked	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sermon	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sermon	nmod:poss
22	sermon	sermon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 close	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 close	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 asked	nsubj
25	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wisdom	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 asked	iobj
27	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	29 was	mark
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 asked	advcl
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wiser	nsubj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 man	nmod
35	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 was	parataxis
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	38 was	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 was	nsubj
38	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 wiser	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 preaching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	preach speech: other	past · progressive	the great Jewish sage		sage's people with such wisdom and eloquence		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past	wisdom	such wisdom and eloquence	sage	the close of sage's sermon	tree rules
3	be	past	wisdom not said here			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	past	man				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 28

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 28