Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 108
“One demon’s skin will not do,” said the king sternly; “besides the skin of a blind demon would sound hollow.”
Who acts: skin, king · What happens: not do, say, sound · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (skin, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 demon | nummod |
| 3 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 demon | case |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 sound | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 sound | punct |
| 17 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 19 skin | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skin | det |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sound | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 demon | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 demon | det |
| 22 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 demon | amod |
| 23 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skin | nmod |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 sound | aux |
| 25 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 26 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sound | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 sound | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | future | One demon's skin | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | sternly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sound in a quote | would | besides the skin of a blind demon; hollow property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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