Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 209
But Rukhi was too clever to be caught.
Who acts: Rukhi · What happens: be, catch
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 clever | cc |
| 2 | Rukhi | Rukhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 clever | advmod |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 caught | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 caught | aux:pass |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 clever | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rukhi | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive · passive | Rukhi not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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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