Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 79
The queens in turn became furious and sent their maids to complain to the king.
Who acts: queens · What happens: become, send, complain · To what, where: maids, king
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queens | det |
| 2 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 became | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 turn | case |
| 4 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 queens | nmod |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sent | cc |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 maids | nmod:poss |
| 10 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 complain | mark |
| 12 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 complain | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the queens in turn | furious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the queens in turn not said here | queens's maids | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | complain speech: other | to-infinitive | the queens in turn not said here | the king | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=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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