Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 24
As she had never seen this done before, she asked Rupvati to tell her all about it.
Who acts: Rupvati · What happens: not see, do, ask, tell · To what, where: this, Rupvati · 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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 seen | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 seen | obj |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seen | conj |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 done | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Rupvati | Rupvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 it | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | Rupvati | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | participle | Rupvati not said here | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Rupvati | Rupvati | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent rupvati=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rupvati not said here | Rupvati | about Krishna | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about it=Topic |
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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