Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 109
The demons in despair offered Rupsinh a large ransom, but he would not accept it.
Who acts: demons, Rupsinh · What happens: offer, not accept · To what, where: large ransom, Rupsinh, ransom
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, Rupsinh), 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 demons | det |
| 2 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 despair | case |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 demons | nmod |
| 5 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ransom | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ransom | amod |
| 9 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 accept | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 accept | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 accept | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 accept | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 accept | advmod |
| 15 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 offered | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 accept | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | the demons in despair | a large ransom | Rupsinh | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent rupsinh=Goal ransom=Theme | |||
| 2 | not accept | would | Rupsinh | ransom | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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