Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 129
If no man but the king had seen her during the previous year, her weight would only be that of five flowers.
Who acts: man · What happens: see, be · To what, where: princess, that
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 (man), 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 | _ | 8 seen | mark |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 king | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 would | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | obj |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 12 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 year | amod |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 weight | nmod:poss |
| 16 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 would | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 that | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 that | cop |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 would | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 flowers | case |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 flowers | nummod |
| 23 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 that | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 would | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | no man but the king | princess | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | that | of five flowers | 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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