Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 12
Well the Ganges is a lady as well as a river and after some time Shiva’s queen, Parvati, grew bitterly jealous of the fair woman, whom her husband carried continually in her hair.
Who acts: Ganges, queen, husband · What happens: be, grow, carry · To what, where: lady, fair woman, hair
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ganges, queen, husband), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 lady | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ganges | det |
| 3 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lady | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lady | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 11 river | cc |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lady | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 time | cc |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 river | conj |
| 16 | Shiva | Shiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 queen | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Shiva | case |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Parvati | punct |
| 20 | Parvati | Parvati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 queen | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grew | punct |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 queen | acl:relcl |
| 23 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 24 jealous | advmod |
| 24 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grew | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 woman | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 woman | det |
| 27 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 woman | amod |
| 28 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 jealous | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 carried | punct |
| 30 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 carried | obj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 husband | nmod:poss |
| 32 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carried | nsubj |
| 33 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 woman | acl:relcl |
| 34 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 33 carried | advmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 hair | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 hair | nmod:poss |
| 37 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carried | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Ganges | a lady as a river and some time Shiva's queen | a river and some time Shiva's queen conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past | Shiva's queen not said here | jealous property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Ganges's husband | the fair woman | Ganges's hair | continually property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Value in hair=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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