Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 1
Once upon a time there was a great king of Guzarat, who died leaving two sons Phulsinh and Rupsinh.
Who acts: great king · What happens: be, die, leave · To what, where: two sons
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great king), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 king | amod |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Guzarat | case |
| 11 | Guzarat | Guzarat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 died | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 died | nsubj |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 died | xcomp |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 sons | nummod |
| 17 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 leaving | obj |
| 18 | Phulsinh | Phulsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sons | appos |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Rupsinh | cc |
| 20 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Phulsinh | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great king of Guzarat | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | die | past | a great king of Guzarat | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | a great king of Guzarat not said here | two sons | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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