Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 168
Then he turned and saw the anchorite trying to soothe the other Anardes, for it was their voices which the king had heard.
Who acts: king, anchorite, door · What happens: turn, see, try, soothe, be, hear · To what, where: anchorite, other Anardes, voices
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, door), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 anchorite | det |
| 7 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 soothe | mark |
| 10 | soothe | soothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Anardes | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Anardes | amod |
| 13 | Anardes | Anarde | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 soothe | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 voices | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 voices | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 voices | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 voices | cop |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voices | nmod:poss |
| 19 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 soothe | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 heard | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 voices | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | king | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | king not said here | the anchorite | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | the anchorite not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | soothe not said to happen | to-infinitive | the anchorite not said here | the other Anardes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anarde=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | past | door | for Anardes's voices; Anardes = anarde nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hear | past · perfect | the king | Anardes's voices | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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