Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 263
“The news I bring, my Prince,” he said slowly, “is as bad as it can be.
Who acts: news · What happens: bring, say, be · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (news), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Prince | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bad | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bad | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bad | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 bad | advmod |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 be | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 be | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bad | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present | the news | my Prince | I nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument prince=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | news | slowly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | bad property | 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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