Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 115
One day as he rode under her window her maid-servants whispered to her, “That is the young king, my Princess.”
Who acts: king, maid servants, That · What happens: ride, whisper, be · To what, where: window, princess, young king · 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 (king, maid servants, That), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 rode | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 window | nmod:poss |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 servants | nmod:poss |
| 10 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 servants | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 maid | punct |
| 12 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 whispered | nsubj |
| 13 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 whispered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
| 18 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 king | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 king | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 king | amod |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whispered | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Princess | punct |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 king | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | king | princess's window | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | princess's maid servants | princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | That | the young king and my Princess | my Princess conj | tree rules |
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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