Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 175
In no long time he saw an ascetic, who for 700 years had been doing penances, in order to win the queen of the Anardes.
Who acts: king, ascetic doing penances · What happens: see, do, win · To what, where: ascetic doing penances, queen
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, ascetic doing penances), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 penances | det |
| 8 | ascetic | ascetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 penances | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 doing | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 doing | nsubj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | 700 | 700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 doing | obl |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 doing | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 doing | aux |
| 16 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 penances | amod |
| 17 | penances | penance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 win | punct |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 win | mark |
| 20 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 in | fixed |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 win | mark |
| 22 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 saw | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 queen | det |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 win | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Anardes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Anardes | det |
| 27 | Anardes | Anarde | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 queen | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | king | a ascetic doing penances | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer penance=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect · progressive | a ascetic doing penances | year | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | win | to-infinitive | king not said here | the queen of the Anardes | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=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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