Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 187
The king took the wand, although he thought it a poor exchange for the queen of the Anardes, and going sadly to his horse got ready to mount it.
Who acts: king, going · What happens: take, think, go, get, mount · To what, where: wand
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, going), 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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wand | det |
| 5 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 exchange | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 exchange | amod |
| 13 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 queen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exchange | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Anardes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Anardes | det |
| 19 | Anardes | Anarde | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 queen | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 got | cc |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 got | csubj |
| 23 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 22 going | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 horse | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 horse | nmod:poss |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 going | obl |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 28 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 got | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 mount | mark |
| 30 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 ready | xcomp |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 mount | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king | the wand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | king | wand | a poor exchange for the queen of the Anardes xcomp | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | to king's horse; sadly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to horse=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | get | past | going | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | mount | to-infinitive | going not said here | wand | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/187/