Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 100
The king was at first too astonished to do anything and then he wept bitterly at the awful fate that had overtaken his loyal and faithful servant.
Who acts: king, awful fate · What happens: be, do, weep, overtake · To what, where: anything, awful fate, loyal servant
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 (king, awful fate), 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 | 7 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 astonished | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 first | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 astonished | obl |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 astonished | advmod |
| 7 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 astonished | xcomp |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wept | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 wept | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wept | nsubj |
| 14 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 astonished | conj |
| 15 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 14 wept | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 fate | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fate | det |
| 18 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fate | amod |
| 19 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wept | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 overtaken | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 overtaken | aux |
| 22 | overtaken | overtake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 fate | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 servant | nmod:poss |
| 24 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 servant | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 faithful | cc |
| 26 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 loyal | conj |
| 27 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 overtaken | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the king not said here | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | king | the awful fate | then | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 4 | overtake | past · perfect | the awful fate | king's loyal servant | 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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