Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 184
But seeing how downcast Rupsinh looked, he gave him a wand and said “This is a magic wand.
Who acts: seeing, Rupsinh, This · What happens: see, look, give, say, be · To what, where: downcast Rupsinh, wand, mortal, magic wand · 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 (seeing, Rupsinh, This), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 looked | csubj |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 downcast | advmod |
| 4 | downcast | downcast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Rupsinh | amod |
| 5 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seeing | obj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wand | det |
| 12 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | conj |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 wand | punct |
| 16 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 wand | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wand | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wand | det |
| 19 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wand | amod |
| 20 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | downcast Rupsinh | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rupsinh=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | past | seeing | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | give | past | Rupsinh | a wand | mortal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wand=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Rupsinh not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | This | a magic wand | tree rules |
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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