Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 101
He put the petrified body in a room in his palace and daily for several years prostrated himself at its feet to shew his sorrow.
Who acts: king · What happens: put, petrify, prostrate, shew, sorrow · To what, where: petrified body, room, king, feet, sorrow
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), 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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 4 | petrified | petrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 body | amod |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 palace | nmod:poss |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 daily | cc |
| 13 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palace | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 15 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 years | amod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 prostrated | obl |
| 17 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 prostrated | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 prostrated | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 shew | mark |
| 23 | shew | shew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 prostrated | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shew | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | king | the petrified body | a room | in king's palace | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in room=Destination | ||
| 2 | petrify | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | prostrate | past | king | body's feet | year | tree rules | |||
| 4 | shew | to-infinitive | king's sorrow | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sorrow | king | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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