Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 40
As the widowed queen spoke, her voice trembled and the tears rolled down her cheeks, for she loved Rupsinh as if he had been her own son.
Who acts: widowed queen, voice, tears, Rupsinh · What happens: widow, speak, tremble, roll down, love, be · To what, where: cheeks, Rupsinh, own son · 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 (widowed queen, voice, tears, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 spoke | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 3 | widowed | widow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 queen | amod |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trembled | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trembled | nsubj |
| 9 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rolled | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tears | det |
| 12 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rolled | nsubj |
| 13 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trembled | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 rolled | compound:prt |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rolled | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 loved | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 loved | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 loved | nsubj |
| 20 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trembled | conj |
| 21 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 loved | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 son | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 son | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 son | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 son | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 son | cop |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 son | amod |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 loved | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 trembled | 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 | speak speech: other | past | the widowed queen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tremble | past | queen's voice | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | roll down | past | the tears | queen's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=Theme | ||||
| 5 | love | past | voice | Rupsinh | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rupsinh=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | past · perfect | Rupsinh | queen's own son | queen nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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