Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 205
Rukhi promised to do so, but a minute or so later she followed her mistress to the well and pushed her in.
Who acts: Rukhi · What happens: promise, do, follow, push in · To what, where: mistress, well, 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 (Rukhi), 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 | Rukhi | Rukhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 followed | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 minute | det |
| 9 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 later | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 so | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 minute | conj |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 followed | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 followed | nsubj |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 well | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 well | det |
| 19 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pushed | cc |
| 21 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pushed | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pushed | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Rukhi | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rukhi not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | follow | past | Rukhi | Rukhi's mistress | the well | late property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mistress=Theme to well=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | push in | past | Rukhi not said here | Rukhi | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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