Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 65
The poor maina was as much upset at this story as she had been at the other.
Who acts: poor maina, poison · What happens: be · To what, where: story
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 (poor maina, poison), 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 | 3 maina | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maina | amod |
| 3 | maina | maina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 upset | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 upset | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 upset | amod |
| 7 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 upset | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 other | case |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 other | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 other | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 other | cop |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 other | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 upset | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 upset | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor maina | this story | upset property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | poison | other property | 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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