Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 107
In an agony of fear they begged him to take the skin of their blind uncle instead.
Who acts: demons · What happens: beg, take · To what, where: Rupsinh, agony, skin
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 (demons), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 agony | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 agony | det |
| 3 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fear | case |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agony | nmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 begged | nsubj |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 begged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begged | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 skin | det |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 uncle | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 uncle | amod |
| 16 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | nmod |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | demons = demon | Rupsinh | a agony of fear | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | demons = demon not said here | the skin of demons's blind uncle | instead property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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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