Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 167
But remembering the anchorite’s words, he never once looked round until he had reached the palace door.
Who acts: king, anchorite · What happens: remember, not look round, reach, word · To what, where: words, palace door
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 remembering | cc |
| 2 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 looked | csubj:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 anchorite | det |
| 4 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 anchorite | case |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 remembering | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembering | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 looked | advmod |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 looked | advmod |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 looked | advmod |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reached | aux |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 looked | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 door | compound |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | gerund | the anchorite's words | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not look round | participle | king | once, round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reach | past · perfect | king | the palace door | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word | the anchorite | 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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