Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 11
The queen said with a laugh: “Yes, I am getting old and make mistakes.
Who acts: queen · What happens: say, get, make · To what, where: mistakes · 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 (queen), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 laugh | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 laugh | det |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 9 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 13 getting | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Yes | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 getting | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 getting | aux |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 getting | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 getting | conj |
| 17 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | with a laugh | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with laugh=Manner | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · progressive | the queen = queen | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | the queen = queen not said here | mistakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
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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