Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 105
So when I saw two demons in front of me, I laughed for joy.”
Who acts: I · What happens: see, laugh · To what, where: two demons, front
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 (I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 demons | nummod |
| 6 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 front | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughed | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 laughed | nsubj |
| 13 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 joy | case |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laughed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughed | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | two demons | front of me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer demon=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | I | for joy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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