Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 218
Rukhi had the tree cut down but before it was felled, a bania had picked one of the mangoes and given it to his wife to eat.
Who acts: Rukhi, tree · What happens: have, cut down, fell, pick, give, eat · To what, where: tree, fruit, bania, wife
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, 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 | Rukhi | Rukhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 cut | compound:prt |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 felled | cc |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 felled | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felled | aux:pass |
| 11 | felled | fell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cut | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 picked | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bania | det |
| 14 | bania | bania | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 picked | aux |
| 16 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | parataxis |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 picked | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mangoes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mangoes | det |
| 20 | mangoes | mango | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 given | cc |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 picked | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wife | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wife | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rukhi | the tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut down | participle | the tree not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | fell | past · passive | fruit | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pick | past · perfect · passive | a bania | one of the mangoes obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | participle | fruit | king's wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wife=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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