Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 171
So cease from troubling the king and his bride and give them your blessing instead.”
Who acts: you, your · What happens: cease, trouble, give, bless · To what, where: king, blessing, words
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 (you, your), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 cease | advmod |
| 2 | cease | cease | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 4 troubling | mark |
| 4 | troubling | trouble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 cease | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 troubling | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bride | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bride | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 cease | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 14 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 11 give | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cease | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 cease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | trouble | gerund | you not said here | the king and king's bride | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | you not said here | your blessing | words = word | instead property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient blessing=Theme | ||
| 4 | bless | your | nom blessing «act 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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