Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 133
The old king made enquiries and came to know that Rupsinh had several times spoken to Phulpancha.
Who acts: old king, Rupsinh · What happens: make, come, know, have, speak · To what, where: enquiries, several times, Phulpancha · 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 | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 king | acl |
| 5 | enquiries | enquiry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | ccomp |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 times | amod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 times | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Phulpancha | case |
| 17 | Phulpancha | Phulpancha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 spoken | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | the old king not said here | enquiries | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enquiry=Product | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the old king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | the old king not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Rupsinh | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | participle | several times not said here | Phulpancha | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to phulpancha=Co-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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