Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 144
The king was astonished that the anchorite should know his name and he asked the anchorite how he knew it.
Who acts: king, anchorite · What happens: be, know, ask, name · To what, where: name, anchorite
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 (king, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | cop |
| 4 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 anchorite | det |
| 7 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 astonished | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 anchorite | det |
| 16 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 knew | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 anchorite | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | should | the anchorite | king's name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | king | the anchorite | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anchorite=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | know | past | king | name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | name | king | nom name «communication 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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