Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 23
She said: “If you will go, my King, then heed my words carefully, for the road is long and full of perils.
Who acts: queen, you, road, my · What happens: say, go, heed, be, word · To what, where: words · 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 (queen, you, road, my), 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 5 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 King | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 King | nmod:poss |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 go | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heed | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 heed | advmod |
| 14 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 words | nmod:poss |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heed | obj |
| 17 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 14 heed | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 long | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 long | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 long | cop |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 full | cc |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 long | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 perils | case |
| 27 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | my King vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | heed in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | my words | then | carefully property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the road | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | the road not said here | of perils | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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