Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 4
Phulsinh’s widow would have burnt herself on her husband’s pyre had not the townspeople bidden her live and care for their child king.
Who acts: townspeople · What happens: burnt, bid, care · To what, where: widow, live, pyre
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 (townspeople), 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 | Phulsinh | Phulsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 widow | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Phulsinh | case |
| 3 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 burnt | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 burnt | aux |
| 6 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 burnt | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 pyre | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pyre | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 husband | case |
| 12 | pyre | pyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bidden | obl |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bidden | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 townspeople | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 townspeople | det |
| 16 | townspeople | townspeople | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bidden | nsubj |
| 17 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 burnt | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 live | nmod:poss |
| 19 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bidden | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 care | cc |
| 21 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bidden | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 king | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 king | nmod:poss |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 king | compound |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 care | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | would · perfect · passive | Phulsinh's widow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · perfect | the townspeople | widow's live | widow's husband's pyre | tree rules | |||
| 3 | care | present | the townspeople not said here | for Phulsinh's child king | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for king=Theme |
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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