Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 78
He was so obstinate that the old man at last put a bed for him in the verandah on the ground floor, while he and his sons slept in rooms off it.
Who acts: king, old man · What happens: be, put, sleep · To what, where: bed, verandah, rooms
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 (king, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 obstinate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obstinate | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 obstinate | advmod |
| 4 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | nsubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | nmod |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obstinate | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 verandah | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 verandah | det |
| 18 | verandah | verandah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 floor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 floor | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 floor | compound |
| 22 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 verandah | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 slept | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 slept | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 slept | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sons | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sons | nmod:poss |
| 28 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 he | conj |
| 29 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obstinate | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 rooms | case |
| 31 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 slept | obl |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 slept | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obstinate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | obstinate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | past | the old man at last | a bed | the verandah on the ground floor | for king | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme in verandah=Destination | ||
| 3 | sleep | past | king | rooms | off floor | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=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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