Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 135
Fortunately before entering the king’s service, Rupsinh had told the old woman of the garden about the Amrita.
Who acts: Rupsinh, king · What happens: enter, tell, service · To what, where: service, old woman · 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 (Rupsinh, king), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 2 before | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 entering | mark |
| 3 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 told | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 service | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entering | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entering | punct |
| 9 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woman | nmod |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 Amrita | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Amrita | det |
| 20 | Amrita | Amrita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 garden | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | Rupsinh not said here | the king's service | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | Rupsinh | the old woman of the garden about the Amrita | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | service | the king | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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