Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 245
The queen was unwilling to stay, but Rupsinh held her firmly all night by the hand.
Who acts: queen, Rupsinh · What happens: unwill, stay, hold · To what, where: queen
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, Rupsinh), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unwilling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unwilling | aux |
| 4 | unwilling | unwill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unwilling | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 9 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 held | nsubj |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unwilling | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 held | obj |
| 12 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 10 held | advmod |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hand | det |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unwilling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unwill | past · progressive | the queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | Rupsinh | queen | night | by the hand; firmly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by hand=Location |
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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