Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 70
It was only the other day that I heard from a kinsman that my father had married me to your daughter.
Who acts: greeting, I · What happens: be, hear, marry · To what, where: other day, kinsman
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 (greeting, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 day | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 heard | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 kinsman | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kinsman | det |
| 12 | kinsman | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 married | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 married | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 married | aux |
| 17 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 kinsman | acl:relcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 married | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 daughter | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 married | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | greeting | the other day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | I | the other day | a kinsman | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent that=Topic from kinsman=Source | |||
| 3 | marry | past · perfect · passive | a kinsman | to your daughter; my father nsubj:pass; me obj | tree rules |
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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