Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 197
After greeting his sister-in-law, the widowed queen, he began to make everything ready for his marriage to the fairy queen; and in due time their wedding was celebrated with the greatest pomp and splendour.
Who acts: king, sister · What happens: greet, widow, begin, make, celebrate, marry · To what, where: sister, everything, wedding
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, sister), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 greeting | mark |
| 2 | greeting | greet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 began | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 greeting | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 law | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 in | punct |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 queen | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 11 | widowed | widow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 queen | amod |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 greeting | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 marriage | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 22 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ready | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 queen | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 queen | det |
| 25 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 queen | compound |
| 26 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marriage | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 celebrated | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 celebrated | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 30 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 time | amod |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 celebrated | obl |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 35 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 began | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 pomp | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pomp | det |
| 38 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 pomp | amod |
| 39 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 celebrated | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 splendour | cc |
| 41 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pomp | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | gerund | king not said here | king's sister and the widowed queen | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | ||||
| 2 | widow | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | king | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | king not said here | everything | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product | |||
| 5 | celebrate | past · passive | sister's wedding | time | with the greatest pomp and splendour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 6 | marry | king | to the fairy queen | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 7 | wed | sister | nom wedding «event 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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