Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 217
The flower fell into a bed of soft earth and in a month or two there had sprung up a splendid mango tree that bore delicious fruit.
Who acts: flower, splendid mango tree · What happens: fall, spring up, bear · To what, where: bed, splendid mango tree, delicious fruit
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 (flower, splendid mango tree), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flower | det |
| 2 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bed | det |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 earth | amod |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bed | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sprung | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 month | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 month | det |
| 13 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sprung | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 two | cc |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 month | conj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 sprung | advmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sprung | aux |
| 18 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 fell | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 sprung | compound:prt |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 21 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tree | amod |
| 22 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sprung | obj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 bore | nsubj |
| 25 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tree | acl:relcl |
| 26 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fruit | amod |
| 27 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bore | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the flower | into a bed of soft earth result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into bed=Result | ||||
| 2 | spring up | past · perfect | the flower not said here | a splendid mango tree | there | month | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||
| 3 | bear | past | a splendid mango tree | delicious fruit | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
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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