Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 177
The king foolishly shewed the anchorite the pomegranate and let him take it in his hand.
Who acts: king · What happens: shew, let, take · To what, where: anchorite, king, goal, hand
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), 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 | 4 shewed | nsubj |
| 3 | foolishly | foolishly | ADV | _ | 4 shewed | advmod |
| 4 | shewed | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 anchorite | det |
| 6 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shewed | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pomegranate | det |
| 8 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shewed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 shewed | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shew | past | the king | the anchorite | the pomegranate obj; foolishly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the king not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | king not said here | goal | king's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in hand=Location |
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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