Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 67
“This is Thugtown,” thought the king, “and the old man must be one of the thugs who live there.”
Who acts: This, Thugtown, old man, thugs · What happens: be, think, live · To what, where: Thugtown, king, one · 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 (This, Thugtown, old man, thugs), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Thugtown | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Thugtown | cop |
| 4 | Thugtown | Thugtown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Thugtown | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Thugtown | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 one | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 one | cop |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 thugs | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thugs | det |
| 21 | thugs | thug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 live | nsubj |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thugs | acl:relcl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 live | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | Thugtown | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Thugtown | the king | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot king=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | must | the old man | one | of the thugs | tree rules | |||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | the thugs | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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