Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 213
King Amrai consulted his ministers and they advised him to free his son, but at the same time to put in charge of him some wise and virtuous old man, who by example and precept would show him the error of his ways.
Who acts: King, ministers, wise old man, ways · What happens: consult, advise, put, show, charge, err · To what, where: ministers, king, charge, error
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, ministers, wise old man, ways), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consulted | nsubj |
| 2 | Amrai | Amrai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 consulted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 advised | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 advised | nsubj |
| 8 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consulted | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 advised | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 free | mark |
| 11 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 advised | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 free | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 time | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consulted | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 put | mark |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 time | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 charge | case |
| 23 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 charge | nmod |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 man | det |
| 27 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 virtuous | cc |
| 29 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wise | conj |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 show | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 example | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 example | nsubj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 example | case |
| 35 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 man | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 precept | cc |
| 37 | precept | precept | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 man | conj |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 show | aux |
| 39 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 put | advcl |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 show | iobj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 error | det |
| 42 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 show | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 ways | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 ways | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 error | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | King | king's ministers | time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Theme | |||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | ministers = minister | king | free property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | King not said here | charge of king | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in charge=Destination | ||||
| 4 | show | would | some wise old man by example some wise old man by example some wise old man and precept and precept | the error of king's ways | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient error=Topic | |||
| 5 | charge | king | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | err | king's ways | nom error «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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