Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 68
Two or three months later each of the king’s two queens sent her maid to buy her some groceries.
Who acts: two queens · What happens: send, buy · To what, where: maid, groceries
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two queens), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 months | nummod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 three | cc |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Two | conj |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 later | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 sent | advmod |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 king | det |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 queens | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 queens | nummod |
| 12 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 maid | nmod:poss |
| 15 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 buy | mark |
| 17 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 groceries | nmod:poss |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 groceries | det |
| 20 | groceries | grocery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 buy | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | each king's two queens | city's maid | late property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme | |||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | each king's two queens not said here | maid's groceries | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grocery=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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