Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 12
If you want someone who will never make mistakes, you had better marry the queen of the Anardes.”
Who acts: you · What happens: want, not make, have, marry · To what, where: someone, mistakes, queen
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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 want | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | advcl |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 make | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 make | advmod |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 someone | acl:relcl |
| 9 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 marry | advmod |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Anardes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Anardes | det |
| 19 | Anardes | Anarde | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 queen | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | someone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not make | future | mistakes | who nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | ||||
| 3 | have | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | marry | infinitive | you not said here | the queen of the Anardes | well property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient |
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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