Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 204
She did not like to leave the king alone, so she asked Rukhi to watch by him until she came back.
Who acts: queen · What happens: not like, leave, ask, watch, come back · To what, where: king, Rukhi
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 (queen), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 leave | mark |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 leave | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 asked | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | parataxis |
| 14 | Rukhi | Rukhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 watch | mark |
| 16 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 watch | obl |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 watch | advcl |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | queen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | queen not said here | the king | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | queen | Rukhi | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent rukhi=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | queen not said here | by king | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location | ||||
| 5 | come back | past | queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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