Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 10
Even Madhav said to Magadha in Rupvati’s presence “You must obey Rupvati in everything.
Who acts: Madhav, Magadha · What happens: say, obey · To what, where: Magadha, presence, Rupvati, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madhav, Magadha), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Madhav | Madhav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Magadha | case |
| 5 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 presence | case |
| 7 | Rupvati | Rupvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 presence | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Rupvati | case |
| 9 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 obey | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 obey | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 obey | aux |
| 13 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 14 | Rupvati | Rupvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 obey | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 everything | case |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 obey | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Madhav | Magadha | Rupvati's presence | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to magadha=Recipient | |||
| 2 | obey in a quote | must | Magadha | Rupvati | everything | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rupvati=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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