Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 182
For 700 years I have sought to win the queen of the Anardes.
Who acts: I · What happens: seek, win · To what, where: 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 (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | 700 | 700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sought | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sought | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sought | aux |
| 6 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 win | mark |
| 8 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sought | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 win | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Anardes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Anardes | det |
| 13 | Anardes | Anarde | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 queen | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · perfect | I | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | I 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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