Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 68
Still Rupsinh could not but return the old man’s greeting.
Who acts: Rupsinh, old man · What happens: not return, greet · To what, where: greeting
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, old man), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 6 return | advmod |
| 2 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 return | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 return | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 return | advmod |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 return | cc |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 man | case |
| 11 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return | could | Rupsinh | the old man's greeting | still | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme | |||
| 2 | greet | the old man | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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