Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 20
After she had spoken, she took the emperor’s cup in her hands and drank from it, thus breaking her caste in the sight of all.
Who acts: queen · What happens: speak, take, drink, break · To what, where: cup, hands, hand, caste, sight · 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoken | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoken | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | aux |
| 4 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoken | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cup | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 emperor | case |
| 11 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drank | cc |
| 16 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drank | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 breaking | punct |
| 20 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 21 breaking | advmod |
| 21 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 drank | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 caste | nmod:poss |
| 23 | caste | caste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 breaking | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sight | det |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 breaking | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 sight | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | queen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | queen | the emperor's cup | queen's hands | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cup=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | drink | past | queen not said here | hand | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from it=Source | ||||
| 4 | break | gerund | queen not said here | queen's caste | the sight of all | thus property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer caste=Patient |
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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