Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 62

The poor vizier, now almost dead from the expectation of death, was at once carried to the king, to whom he repeated the news that his son had just brought.

Who acts: Father · What happens: carry, repeat, bring, expect · To what, where: poor vizier, king, news, son, death

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vizier	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vizier	amod
3	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carried	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 dead	advmod
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vizier	acl:relcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 expectation	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 expectation	det
10	expectation	expectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 death	case
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expectation	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 vizier	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 carried	aux:pass
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 carried	obl
17	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carried	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 repeated	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 repeated	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 repeated	nsubj
25	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 carried	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 news	det
27	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 repeated	obj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 brought	mark
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 son	nmod:poss
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brought	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 brought	aux
32	just	just	ADV	_	33 brought	advmod
33	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 repeated	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	carry	past · passive		the poor vizier	the king	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to king=Destination
2	repeat	past	Father	the news		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Topic to whom=Recipient
3	bring	past · perfect · passive		Father's son		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
4	expect			death		nom expectation «cognition transitive»: of=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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