Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 118
The old woman said that she could not, as she was weaving garlands for the Princess Phulpancha.
Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: say, weave · To what, where: garlands · 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 (old woman, woman), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 could | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 could | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 could | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 weaving | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 weaving | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 weaving | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 weaving | aux |
| 13 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 14 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 weaving | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Phulpancha | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Phulpancha | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Phulpancha | compound |
| 18 | Phulpancha | Phulpancha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 weaving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weave | past · progressive | woman | garlands | for the Princess Phulpancha | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent garland=Product for phulpancha=Beneficiary |
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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