Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 9
The queen was so infatuated with what she had seen and heard that she would not stop, but began to compare the gaiety of the emperor’s camp with the dullness of life in Sirohi.
Who acts: queen · What happens: infatuate, see, hear, not stop, begin, compare · To what, where: queen, gaiety · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 infatuated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 infatuated | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 infatuated | advmod |
| 5 | infatuated | infatuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 infatuated | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 stop | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stop | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 stop | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 stop | advmod |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 heard | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 infatuated | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 compare | mark |
| 22 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gaiety | det |
| 24 | gaiety | gaiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 compare | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 camp | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 emperor | det |
| 27 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 camp | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 emperor | case |
| 29 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gaiety | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 dullness | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dullness | det |
| 32 | dullness | dullness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 compare | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 life | case |
| 34 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dullness | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Sirohi | case |
| 36 | Sirohi | Sirohi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 dullness | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 infatuated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | infatuate | past · passive | the queen | what obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | queen not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not stop | would | queen | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | compare | to-infinitive | the gaiety of the emperor's camp | with the dullness of life in Sirohi | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent gaiety=Patient with dullness=Co-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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