Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 217
He pretended to listen with the greatest attention to all the old man’s words and seemed so eager to do what was right, that the sage thought the prince the most charming of pupils.
Who acts: king, sage, old man · What happens: pretend, listen, seem, do, be, think · To what, where: prince
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, sage, old man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pretended | nsubj |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 listen | mark |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pretended | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 attention | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 attention | det |
| 7 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 attention | amod |
| 8 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listen | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 words | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 words | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 man | case |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listen | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seemed | cc |
| 17 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 eager | advmod |
| 19 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 seemed | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 eager | xcomp |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 right | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 right | cop |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 do | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thought | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 thought | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sage | det |
| 28 | sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thought | nsubj |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 prince | det |
| 31 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thought | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 charming | det |
| 33 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 34 charming | advmod |
| 34 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thought | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 pupils | case |
| 36 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 charming | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | king not said here | with the greatest attention; to the old man's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | king not said here | eager property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | what nsubj; right property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the sage | the prince | the charming of pupils obj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent prince=Theme charming=Attribute | |||
| 7 | word | the old man | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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