Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 16

Now Rupvati for all her beauty was really a bad hearted woman and directly her husband had gone, she began to take as her lovers all the handsome young men of the neighbourhood.

Who acts: beauty, husband, Rupvati · What happens: be, go, begin, take · To what, where: bad hearted woman, handsome young men

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 (beauty, husband, Rupvati), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Rupvati	advmod
2	Rupvati	Rupvati	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 began	nsubj
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 woman	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 beauty	det:predet
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 beauty	nmod:poss
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 woman	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 woman	cop
8	really	really	ADV	_	12 woman	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
11	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rupvati	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gone	cc
14	directly	directly	ADV	_	18 gone	advmod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gone	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	aux
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 woman	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Rupvati	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 lovers	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 lovers	nmod:poss
26	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 take	obl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 men	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 men	det
29	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 men	amod
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 men	amod
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 take	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 neighbourhood	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 neighbourhood	det
34	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 men	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Rupvati's beauty	a bad hearted woman		tree rules
2	go	past · perfect	Rupvati's husband		directly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	Rupvati			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	take	to-infinitive	Rupvati not said here	all handsome young men of the neighbourhood	as Rupvati's lovers	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Theme as lover=Attribute

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 16