Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 246
Next morning the king’s ministers and the widowed queen missing him, went in search of him.
Who acts: widowed queen · What happens: widow, miss, go, search · To what, where: king, search
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 (widowed 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 morning | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 queen | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 9 | widowed | widow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 queen | amod |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ministers | conj |
| 11 | missing | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 queen | acl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 missing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 search | case |
| 16 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 search | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | widow | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | miss | gerund | the widowed queen not said here | king | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | search of king | morning | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 4 | search | king | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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