Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 159
One of them, slightly bigger than the others, was clearly their queen.
What happens: be · To what, where: queen, One
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bigger | punct |
| 5 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 6 bigger | advmod |
| 6 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 One | parataxis |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 others | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 others | det |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bigger | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 queen | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 queen | cop |
| 12 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 14 queen | advmod |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 queen | nmod:poss |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bigger | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fairies's queen | fairies = fairy nmod:poss; clearly property | tree rules |
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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