Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 211
She then complained to the king that the widowed queen always tried to vex her.
Who acts: Rukhi, widowed queen · What happens: complain, widow, try, vex · 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 (Rukhi, widowed 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 | 3 complained | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 complained | advmod |
| 3 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 complained | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 tried | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 9 | widowed | widow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 queen | amod |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tried | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 tried | advmod |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 complained | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 vex | mark |
| 14 | vex | vex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tried | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 vex | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | past | Rukhi | the king | then | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | widow | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | try | past | the widowed queen | always property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | vex not said to happen | to-infinitive | the widowed queen not said here | Rukhi | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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