Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 188
As he put his foot in the stirrup, the wand spoke to him with a human voice, “O King, you do not know my name.
Who acts: king, wand, my · What happens: put, speak, not know, name · To what, where: foot, stirrup, king, name · 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, wand, my), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 put | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoke | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 foot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 stirrup | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stirrup | det |
| 8 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wand | det |
| 11 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | nsubj |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spoke | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 voice | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 17 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 voice | amod |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 21 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 22 King | case |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 know | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 King | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 know | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 know | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 know | advmod |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 spoke | conj |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 name | nmod:poss |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 know | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | king | king's foot | the stirrup | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in stirrup=Destination | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the wand | king | with a human voice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | king | my name | of King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | name in a quote | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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