Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 222
Rukhi began to complain of a bad pain and told the king that she had been bewitched by the bania girl and would not get well while the girl lived.
Who acts: Rukhi, bania girl, girl · What happens: begin, complain, tell, bewitch, not get, live · To what, where: king, Rukhi · Speech: someone speaks here
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, bania girl, girl), 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 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 complain | mark |
| 4 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pain | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pain | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pain | amod |
| 8 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 complain | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 bewitched | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bewitched | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bewitched | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 17 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 told | ccomp |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 girl | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 20 | bania | bania | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 girl | compound |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bewitched | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 get | advmod |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bewitched | conj |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 get | advmod |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 lived | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 girl | det |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lived | nsubj |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Rukhi | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | complain speech: other | to-infinitive | Rukhi not said here | of a bad pain | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Rukhi not said here | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bewitch | past · perfect · passive | the bania girl | Rukhi | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not get | would | the bania girl not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | live | past | the girl | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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