Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Cham and the Dervise., sentence 5
Not long after, the king’s surgeon was bribed to kill him with a poisoned lancet at the time he let him blood.
Who acts: king · What happens: bribe, kill, poison, let · To what, where: surgeon, king, blood, Dervise
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Cham and the Dervise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 bribed | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surgeon | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | surgeon | surgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bribed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bribed | aux:pass |
| 10 | bribed | bribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bribed | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 lancet | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lancet | det |
| 16 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lancet | amod |
| 17 | lancet | lancet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kill | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kill | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 let | nsubj |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bribe | past · passive | the king's surgeon | long property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | king | time | with a poisoned lancet | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with lancet=Instrument | |||
| 3 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | let | past | king | blood | Dervise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blood=Theme |
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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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