Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 83
But Rupsinh untied the thread and tied it round the ankle of the old man.
Who acts: Rupsinh · What happens: untie, tie · To what, where: thread
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 untied | cc |
| 2 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 untied | nsubj |
| 3 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thread | det |
| 5 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 untied | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tied | cc |
| 7 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 untied | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tied | obj |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 ankle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ankle | det |
| 11 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tied | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ankle | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 untied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | untie | past | Rupsinh | the thread | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | Rupsinh not said here | thread | round the ankle of the old man | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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