Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 114
The king had not been there many days before the princess came to hear of him.
Who acts: king, princess · What happens: have, not be, come, hear
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 (king, princess), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 there | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hear | mark |
| 14 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hear | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | participle | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | of king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of he=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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