Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 181
He then said to the youth with a mocking laugh: “When I can blast a tree with a single breath, do you think that I fear you for all your valour?
Who acts: king, youth · What happens: say, blast, think, fear · To what, where: youth, tree · 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, youth), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 youth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 laugh | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 laugh | det |
| 9 | mocking | mocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laugh | compound |
| 10 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 youth | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 blast | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 blast | punct |
| 13 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 blast | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 blast | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 blast | aux |
| 16 | blast | blast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blast | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 breath | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 breath | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 breath | amod |
| 22 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blast | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 think | punct |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 think | aux |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 think | nsubj |
| 26 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 blast | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 fear | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 fear | nsubj |
| 29 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 think | advcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 fear | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 valour | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 valour | det:predet |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 valour | nmod:poss |
| 34 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fear | obl |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | king | the youth with a mocking laugh | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to youth=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | blast in a quote | can | king | a tree | with a single breath | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tree=Patient with breath=Instrument | |||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | the youth with a mocking laugh = youth | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fear in a quote | present | king | the youth with a mocking laugh = youth | for your valour | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus for valour=Attribute |
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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