Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 22
From time to time, too, she used to go to Rupvati’s house and work for her; for so gentle was her nature that she never bore Rupvati any ill-will.
Who acts: Rupvati · What happens: use, go, be, not bear · To what, where: house, gentle nature, any, Rupvati
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), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 time | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 used | nsubj |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 13 | Rupvati | Rupvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Rupvati | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 work | cc |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 go | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 nature | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 gentle | case |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 gentle | advmod |
| 23 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nature | amod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 nature | cop |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nature | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 bore | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bore | nsubj |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 bore | advmod |
| 30 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 nature | advcl |
| 31 | Rupvati | Rupvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 bore | obj |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 bore | obj |
| 33 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 will | advcl |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 ill | punct |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 any | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Rupvati | time | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Rupvati not said here | Rupvati's house and work | for Rupvati | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Rupvati's gentle nature | Rupvati nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not bear | past | Rupvati | any | Rupvati | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent rupvati=Beneficiary any=Patient |
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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