Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 128
It was the custom of the land that once a year the Princess should be weighed on a pair of magic scales.
Who acts: weighing · What happens: be, weigh · To what, where: custom, Princess, pair
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 (weighing), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 custom | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 custom | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 custom | det |
| 4 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 custom | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 weighed | obj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 weighed | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 once | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 weighed | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 weighed | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 weighed | aux:pass |
| 16 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 land | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 pair | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pair | det |
| 19 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weighed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 scales | case |
| 21 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 scales | amod |
| 22 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pair | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | weighing | the custom | of the land | tree rules | |||
| 2 | weigh | should · passive | the Princess | a pair of magic scales | the land obj; once property | 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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