Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 94
He at once recalled the widowed queen’s warning about the demons who lived in it.
Who acts: Rupsinh, demons, widowed queen · What happens: recall, widow, live, warn · To what, where: warning
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, demons, widowed queen), 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 recalled | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 recalled | mark |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 recalled | advmod |
| 4 | recalled | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 6 | widowed | widow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 queen | amod |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 warning | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 9 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recalled | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 demons | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 demons | det |
| 12 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warning | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 demons | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recalled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recall | past | Rupsinh | the widowed queen's warning | about the demons; once property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme | |||
| 2 | widow | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | live | past | the demons | warning | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | ||||
| 4 | warn | the widowed queen | about the demons | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl |
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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