Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 131
At the appointed hour Phulpancha sat on one of the scales, while the weigher put five flowers on the other.
Who acts: Phulpancha, weigher · What happens: appoint, sit, put · To what, where: five flowers, other
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 (Phulpancha, weigher), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 3 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hour | amod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 5 | Phulpancha | Phulpancha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sat | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 scales | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 scales | det |
| 11 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 put | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 weigher | det |
| 15 | weigher | weigher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 17 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 flowers | nummod |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 other | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 put | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sit | past | Phulpancha | hour | on one of the scales | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location | |||
| 3 | put | past | the weigher | five flowers | the other | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme on other=Destination |
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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