Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 17
She replied “Grant me a boon, shelter of the world, and I shall tell you.”
Who acts: queen · What happens: reply, grant, tell · To what, where: boon, queen, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Grant | punct |
| 4 | Grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Grant | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boon | det |
| 7 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Grant | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shelter | punct |
| 9 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boon | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shelter | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | grant in a quote | infinitive | queen not said here | a boon | queen | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal boon=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | shall | queen | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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