Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 229
She told him never to pass by the eastern gate or the spirit of the witch girl would possess him.
Who acts: Rukhi, witch girl · What happens: tell, not pass, possess · To what, where: king · 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, witch 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 pass | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pass | mark |
| 6 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 gate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gate | det |
| 9 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gate | amod |
| 10 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pass | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 spirit | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spirit | det |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gate | conj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 possess | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 girl | compound |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 possess | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 possess | aux |
| 19 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 spirit | acl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 possess | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Rukhi | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not pass not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rukhi not said here | by the eastern gate or the spirit | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by gate=Location | ||||
| 3 | possess | would | the witch girl | king | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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