Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 143
On the top stair was seated an aged anchorite who said to him, “Welcome Rupsinh.”
Who acts: aged anchorite · What happens: seat, say · To what, where: aged anchorite, top stair, king · 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 (aged anchorite), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 stair | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stair | det |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stair | amod |
| 4 | stair | stair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | aux:pass |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 anchorite | det |
| 8 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 anchorite | amod |
| 9 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 anchorite | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Rupsinh | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Rupsinh | punct |
| 16 | Welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 17 Rupsinh | discourse |
| 17 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seated | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | a aged anchorite | the top stair | Rupsinh obl | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: anchorite=Value | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a aged anchorite | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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