Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 7
On a day when Rupsinh was a lad of fifteen, he lay asleep with his head resting on the lap of the queen.
Who acts: Rupsinh, head · What happens: be, lie, rest · To what, where: lad, lap
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, head), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 lad | advmod |
| 5 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lad | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lad | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lad | det |
| 8 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fifteen | case |
| 10 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 lad | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lay | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 18 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 head | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 lap | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lap | det |
| 21 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resting | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 queen | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 queen | det |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lap | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rupsinh | a lad | of fifteen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | past | Rupsinh | day | with Rupsinh's head; asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | rest | gerund | Rupsinh's head not said here | the lap of the queen | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lap=Location |
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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