Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 104
The drum is so big that the skin of one demon would not be enough.
Who acts: drum, skin · What happens: be, not be
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 (drum, skin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 drum | det |
| 2 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 enough | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skin | det |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enough | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 demon | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 demon | nummod |
| 11 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skin | nmod |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 enough | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 enough | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 enough | cop |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 big | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the drum | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | would | the skin of one demon | enough property | tree rules |
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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