Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 103
“The parchment on one of his drums is torn and he sent me out to get two demon skins with which to repair it.
Who acts: messenger · What happens: tear, send out, get, repair · To what, where: parchment, messenger, two demon skins
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 (messenger), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 torn | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parchment | det |
| 3 | parchment | parchment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 parchment | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 drums | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 drums | nmod:poss |
| 8 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 parchment | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 torn | aux:pass |
| 10 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 torn | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sent | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | advcl |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 skins | nummod |
| 19 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 skins | compound |
| 20 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 get | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 repair | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 repair | mark |
| 24 | repair | repair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 skins | acl:relcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 repair | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear in a quote | present · passive | the parchment on one of messenger's drums | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send out in a quote | past | messenger | a messenger = messenger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | messenger not said here | two demon skins | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | repair in a quote | to-infinitive | messenger not said here | parchment | with two demon skins | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with which=Instrument |
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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