Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 198
Unhappily in the crowd that watched the wedding was a pretty sweeper girl, called Rukhi and deeply skilled in black magic.
Who acts: crowd · What happens: watch, be, call · To what, where: wedding, pretty sweeper girl · 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 (crowd), 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 | Unhappily | unhappily | ADV | _ | 4 crowd | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 crowd | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 watched | nsubj |
| 6 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crowd | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wedding | det |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watched | obj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 girl | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 12 | sweeper | sweeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | compound |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 girl | acl |
| 16 | Rukhi | Rukhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 skilled | cc |
| 18 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 19 skilled | advmod |
| 19 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 called | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 magic | case |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 magic | amod |
| 22 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skilled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the crowd | the wedding | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the crowd | a pretty sweeper girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a pretty sweeper girl not said here | Rukhi xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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