Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 111
“In it,” they said, “you can fly all over the sky and whenever you see a demon on earth, you can come down and skin him.”
Who acts: demons, you · What happens: say, fly, see, come down · To what, where: pavanpavdi, sky, demon, earth, skin · 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 (demons, you), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 it | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 it | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | aux |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 sky | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fly | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 18 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 see | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 demon | det |
| 22 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 come | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fly | conj |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 skin | cc |
| 31 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 come | obl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 skin | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | demons = demon | pavanpavdi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly in a quote | can | you | the sky | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over sky=Location | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | you | a demon | earth | whenever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer demon=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | come down in a quote | can | you | skin Rupsinh | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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