Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 17
But she feared that Magadha would tell tales about her, so she resolved to turn her out of the house.
Who acts: Rupvati, Magadha · What happens: fear, tell, resolve, turn · To what, where: tales, Rupvati, house · 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 (Rupvati, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 feared | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feared | nsubj |
| 3 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 5 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feared | ccomp |
| 8 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tales | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 resolved | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 resolved | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 resolved | nsubj |
| 14 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 feared | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 turn | mark |
| 16 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 resolved | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turn | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | Rupvati | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | would | Magadha | tales | about Rupvati | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient about she=Topic | |||
| 3 | resolve | past | Rupvati | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | turn | to-infinitive | Rupvati not said here | Rupvati | the house | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme out house=Trajectory |
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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