Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Jinda Pir., sentence 47
Moses asked him why he did not claim from the citizens a rich reward.
Who acts: Moses · What happens: ask, not claim · To what, where: fish, rich reward
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 (Moses), 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 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | 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 asked | iobj |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 claim | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 claim | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 claim | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 claim | advmod |
| 8 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | advcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 citizens | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 citizens | det |
| 11 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 claim | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 reward | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reward | amod |
| 14 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 claim | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Moses | fish | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not claim speech: other | past · do-support | Moses | a rich reward | from the citizens | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reward=Topic |
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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