Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 233
As he prayed, he heard the hen sparrow say to her mate: “The king of this city is a fool” and thereupon she told the cock sparrow the whole tale of the queen of the Anardes.
Who acts: king, hen sparrow, Shiva, queen · What happens: pray, hear, say, be, tell · To what, where: mate, fool, cock sparrow · 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 (king, hen sparrow, Shiva, queen), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 prayed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prayed | nsubj |
| 3 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prayed | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sparrow | det |
| 8 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sparrow | compound |
| 9 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mate | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mate | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 say | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 fool | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 fool | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fool | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 city | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 city | det |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 king | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fool | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fool | det |
| 23 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 fool | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 told | cc |
| 26 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 28 told | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 told | nsubj |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sparrow | det |
| 30 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sparrow | compound |
| 31 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 told | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tale | det |
| 33 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 tale | amod |
| 34 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 told | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 queen | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 queen | det |
| 37 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tale | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Anardes | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Anardes | det |
| 40 | Anardes | Anarde | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 queen | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | king | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the hen sparrow | Shiva's mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mate=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the king of this city | a fool | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Shiva | the cock sparrow | the whole tale of the queen of the Anardes obj; thereupon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Recipient tale=Topic | |||
| 6 | tell | the queen of the Anardes | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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