Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 117
One day Rupsinh came to his lodging, hungry and thirsty, and asked the old woman to cook him some food at once.
Who acts: Rupsinh · What happens: come, ask, cook · To what, where: lodging, old woman, food, Rupsinh
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 (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lodging | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hungry | punct |
| 9 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lodging | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thirsty | cc |
| 11 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hungry | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 cook | mark |
| 19 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cook | obj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 food | det |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cook | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 cook | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Rupsinh | Rupsinh's lodging | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodging=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Rupsinh not said here | the old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cook not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rupsinh not said here | some food | Rupsinh | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary food=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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