Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 99
“We have not tasted human flesh,” said one of the demons, “for twelve years.
Who acts: We, one · What happens: not taste, say · To what, where: human flesh · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, one), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tasted | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tasted | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tasted | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tasted | advmod |
| 5 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flesh | amod |
| 7 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tasted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tasted | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tasted | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 demons | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 demons | det |
| 14 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 years | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 years | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 18 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not taste in a quote | present · perfect | We | human flesh | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme flesh=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of the demons | year | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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