Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 234
“This very night,” continued the hen sparrow “the queen will come out of one of the plantain trees, into which the bania girl’s legs have changed.
Who acts: queen · What happens: continue, come out, change · To what, where: hen sparrow, one, legs
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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 night | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 night | advmod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sparrow | det |
| 9 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sparrow | compound |
| 10 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | obj |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 continued | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trees | det |
| 21 | plantain | plantain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trees | compound |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 changed | punct |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 changed | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 girl | det |
| 27 | bania | bania | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 girl | compound |
| 28 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 legs | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 girl | case |
| 30 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 changed | aux |
| 32 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 come | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the hen sparrow | night | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sparrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come out in a quote | future | the queen | one of the plantain trees | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result | ||||
| 3 | change in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the bania girl's legs | which obl | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into which=Result |
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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