Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 28
As poor Magadha was going home in tears, she met one Bhamini, a friend of Rupvati and just as unkind and cruel as she was.
Who acts: poor Magadha, Magadha, Rupvati · What happens: go, meet, be · To what, where: tears, one Bhamini
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 (poor Magadha, Magadha, 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 going | mark |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Magadha | amod |
| 3 | Magadha | Magadha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 met | advcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tears | case |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 going | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Bhamini | nummod |
| 13 | Bhamini | Bhamini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 friend | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 friend | det |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Bhamini | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Rupvati | case |
| 18 | Rupvati | Rupvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 friend | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 unkind | cc |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 unkind | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 unkind | advmod |
| 22 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Rupvati | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cruel | cc |
| 24 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 unkind | conj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 was | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 was | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 met | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | poor Magadha | tears | home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tear=Location | |||
| 2 | meet | past | Magadha | one Bhamini | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bhamini=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | past | Rupvati | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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