Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 45
Suddenly he saw in front of him, like a sheet of silver, a beautiful lake.
Who acts: Rupsinh · What happens: see · To what, where: front
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 (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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 front | case |
| 5 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 front | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sheet | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 sheet | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sheet | det |
| 11 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silver | case |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sheet | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lake | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lake | amod |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sheet | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Rupsinh | front of Amrita | like a sheet of silver and a beautiful lake; suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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