Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 69
He said “My father died so long ago that I cannot remember him at all, nor anything he did.
Who acts: Rupsinh, father, anything · What happens: say, die, not remember, do · To what, where: Rupsinh, all · 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 (Rupsinh, father, anything), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 died | punct |
| 4 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | nsubj |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ago | advmod |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 died | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 remember | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 remember | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 remember | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 remember | advmod |
| 14 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 died | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 remember | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 remember | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 did | cc |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 did | nsubj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Rupsinh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die in a quote | past | My father | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | not remember in a quote | can | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | all | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | past | anything | Rupsinh nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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