Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 224
The king soothed the old man as best he could; but he was so affected, that he never shewed himself in the Darbar Hall again.
Who acts: king, man · What happens: soothe, be, not shew · To what, where: old man, man, Darbar Hall
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soothed | nsubj |
| 3 | soothed | soothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soothed | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 best | case |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 soothed | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 best | parataxis |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 affected | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 affected | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 affected | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 affected | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 affected | advmod |
| 16 | affected | affected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soothed | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shewed | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 shewed | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shewed | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 shewed | advmod |
| 21 | shewed | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 soothed | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 shewed | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Hall | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Hall | det |
| 25 | Darbar | Darbar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Hall | compound |
| 26 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 shewed | obl |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 shewed | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 soothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soothe | past | the king | the old man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | man | affected property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not shew | past | man | man | the Darbar Hall | again | tree rules |
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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