Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 125
The old king was pleased with Rupsinh’s speech and bearing and made him chief of the guards round the Princess’ palace and paid him three gold pieces a day.
Who acts: old king, Rupsinh · What happens: be, make, pay, speak · To what, where: chief, Rupsinh · 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 king, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 speech | case |
| 7 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 speech | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Rupsinh | case |
| 9 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bearing | cc |
| 11 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speech | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 guards | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 guards | det |
| 18 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 chief | nmod |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 21 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 palace | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 21 Princess | case |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 guards | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 paid | cc |
| 25 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 paid | obj |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 pieces | nummod |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pieces | compound |
| 29 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 paid | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 day | det |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pieces | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old king | with Rupsinh's speech and bearing; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the old king not said here | chief of the guards round the Princess's palace | Rupsinh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary chief=Product | |||
| 3 | pay | past | the old king not said here | Rupsinh | three gold pieces a day obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Asset | |||
| 4 | speak | Rupsinh | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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