Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 23
The people standing by clapped their hands and cried out “Why, it’s our own princess!”
Who acts: people · What happens: stand, clap, cry out, be · To what, where: hands, own princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 princess | nsubj |
| 3 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 people | acl |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 clapped | mark |
| 5 | clapped | clap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 standing | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clapped | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clapped | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cried | compound:prt |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Why | punct |
| 12 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 cried | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 princess | nsubj |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 princess | cop |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 princess | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 princess | amod |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 princess | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | the people not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | clap | participle | the people not said here | people's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the people not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the people | our own princess | voyage nsubj; our nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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