Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 10
He was pleased beyond measure; and he felt deeply grateful to the faithful minister, who had discharged his trust so well and while keeping the people happy had made their king rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Who acts: prince, faithful minister · What happens: be, feel, discharge, keep, make, trust · To what, where: trust, people, king, avarice
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, faithful minister), 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 | 3 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | cop |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 5 measure | case |
| 5 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleased | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | conj |
| 10 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 11 grateful | advmod |
| 11 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 felt | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 minister | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 minister | det |
| 14 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 minister | amod |
| 15 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grateful | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 discharged | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 discharged | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 discharged | aux |
| 19 | discharged | discharge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 minister | acl:relcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 trust | nmod:poss |
| 21 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 discharged | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 well | advmod |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 discharged | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 keeping | mark |
| 26 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 made | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 keeping | obj |
| 29 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 keeping | xcomp |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 felt | conj |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 king | nmod:poss |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 34 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 made | xcomp |
| 35 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 37 dreams | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 dreams | det |
| 37 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 rich | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 avarice | case |
| 39 | avarice | avarice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dreams | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | prince | beyond measure; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | prince | grateful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | discharge | past · perfect | the faithful minister | prince's trust | well property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Theme | |||
| 4 | keep | gerund | the people | happy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | past · perfect | prince not said here | people's king | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product | |||
| 6 | trust | prince | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | dream | avarice | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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