Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 176
The king saluted the anchorite, who asked him whether he had won his goal.
Who acts: king, anchorite · What happens: salute, ask, win · To what, where: anchorite, king, goal · 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saluted | nsubj |
| 3 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 anchorite | det |
| 5 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saluted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 anchorite | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 won | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 won | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 won | aux |
| 13 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 goal | nmod:poss |
| 15 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 won | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | past | the king | the anchorite | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anchorite=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the anchorite | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | win | past · perfect | king | king's goal | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=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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