Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 16
The poor queen regretted bitterly her words and begged the young king to pay no heed to them.
Who acts: poor queen, queen · What happens: regret, beg, pay, word · To what, where: words, young king, heed
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 (poor queen, queen), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | regretted | regret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 queen | acl |
| 5 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 4 regretted | advmod |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 regretted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 begged | cc |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 king | amod |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pay | mark |
| 14 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 begged | advcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 heed | det |
| 16 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pay | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pay | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regret | participle | the poor queen not said here | queen's words | bitterly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the poor queen | the young king | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | the poor queen not said here | no heed | words = word | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | |||
| 4 | word | queen | nom word «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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