Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 192
Rupsinh, who felt very cross with the anchorite for stealing the queen of the Anardes, was delighted and said “Yes, give him a beating, the sounder the better.”
Who acts: Rupsinh · What happens: feel, steal, be, say, give · To what, where: queen, beating, Rupsinh · 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 (Rupsinh), 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 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rupsinh | acl:relcl |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 cross | advmod |
| 6 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 anchorite | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 anchorite | det |
| 9 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cross | obl |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 stealing | mark |
| 11 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 felt | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stealing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Anardes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Anardes | det |
| 16 | Anardes | Anarde | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 queen | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rupsinh | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 delighted | cop |
| 19 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 delighted | conj |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 23 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 25 give | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Yes | punct |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 beating | det |
| 28 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sounder | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sounder | det |
| 31 | sounder | sounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 beating | appos |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 better | det |
| 33 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 sounder | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Rupsinh | cross property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | steal | gerund | Rupsinh not said here | the queen of the Anardes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Rupsinh | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Rupsinh not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | a beating | Rupsinh | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient beating=Theme |
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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