Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 172
When he had calmed the fairies, he went to the king and said, “My son, start at once homewards and tarry nowhere on the road.
Who acts: king, son · What happens: calm, go, say, start · To what, where: fairies, homewards, road · Speech: someone speaks here
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, son), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 calmed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 calmed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 calmed | aux |
| 4 | calmed | calm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairies | det |
| 6 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 calmed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 calmed | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 start | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 start | punct |
| 17 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 start | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 20 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 start | obl |
| 23 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 start | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tarry | cc |
| 25 | tarry | tarry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 homewards | conj |
| 26 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 start | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 road | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 road | det |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 start | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm | past · perfect | king | the fairies | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fairy=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | king | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | start in a quote | infinitive | My son | homewards | the road | nowhere property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Eventuality |
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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