Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 132
Instead of the five flowers balancing the Princess, her scale clung obstinately to the ground; and it was not until two maunds had been put in the other, that the Princess began to move upwards.
Who acts: five flowers, scale, Princess · What happens: balance, cling, not put, begin, move · To what, where: Princess, ground, 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 (five flowers, scale, Princess), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 5 flowers | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flowers | det |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 flowers | nummod |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | balancing | balance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 flowers | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 balancing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clung | punct |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 scale | nmod:poss |
| 11 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clung | nsubj |
| 12 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 13 | obstinately | obstinately | ADV | _ | 16 ground | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clung | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 put | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 put | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 put | aux:pass |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 put | advmod |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 put | mark |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 maunds | nummod |
| 24 | maunds | maund | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 put | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 put | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 put | aux:pass |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 flowers | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 other | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 other | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 put | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 began | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 began | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Princess | det |
| 34 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 began | nsubj |
| 35 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 put | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 move | mark |
| 37 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 began | xcomp |
| 38 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 37 move | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flowers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | balance | gerund | the five flowers not said here | the Princess | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cling | past | princess's scale | the ground | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not put | past · perfect · passive | ground | the other | two maunds nsubj:pass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in other=Destination | |||
| 4 | begin | past | the Princess | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | move | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | upwards property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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