Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 48
With seeming reluctance he confessed that the queen and her paramour had never left Sind.
Who acts: Satan, queen · What happens: seem, confess, not leave · To what, where: Sind
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Satan, queen), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 reluctance | case |
| 2 | seeming | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 reluctance | amod |
| 3 | reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confessed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 confessed | nsubj |
| 5 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 left | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 paramour | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 paramour | nmod:poss |
| 11 | paramour | paramour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 queen | conj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 left | advmod |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 confessed | ccomp |
| 15 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | gerund | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | confess | past | Satan | with seeming reluctance | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not leave | past · perfect | the queen and Nur's paramour | Sind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sind=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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