Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 214
King Amrai thought their advice good and freeing the prince, appointed a wise old man to look after him and to teach him.
Who acts: King · What happens: think, free, appoint, look, teach · To what, where: prince, wise old man, king
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), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | Amrai | Amrai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 advice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | nsubj |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 freeing | cc |
| 8 | freeing | free | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 good | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 freeing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appointed | punct |
| 12 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appointed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 appointed | advcl |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 look | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 teach | cc |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 teach | mark |
| 23 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 look | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 teach | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | King | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | free | gerund | King not said here | the prince | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer prince=Source | ||||
| 3 | appoint | past | a wise old man | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | after king | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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