Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 74
At the old man’s door his four young sons came out and greeted the king as their brother-in-law.
Who acts: four young sons · What happens: come out, greet · To what, where: door, king
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 (four young sons), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 door | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 man | case |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sons | nmod:poss |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 sons | nummod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sons | amod |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 greeted | cc |
| 14 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 greeted | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 law | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 law | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 law | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 law | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 in | punct |
| 23 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 greeted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | bade's four young sons | the old man's door | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | bade's four young sons not said here | the king | as law sons's brother | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent king=Theme as law=Attribute |
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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