Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 102
In course of time the queen bore him a son and every day he used to bring the little boy into the minister’s room to shew him what a good and true servant he had once had.
Who acts: queen, king · What happens: bear, use, bring, shew, have · To what, where: son, king, little boy, room, good 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 (queen, 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 | In | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 time | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 In | fixed |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | nsubj |
| 7 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bore | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 used | cc |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 used | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 used | nsubj |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bore | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 used | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 boy | amod |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 room | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 minister | det |
| 23 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 room | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 minister | case |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 shew | mark |
| 27 | shew | shew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bring | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 shew | obj |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 shew | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 servant | det |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 servant | amod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 true | cc |
| 33 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 good | conj |
| 34 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 what | nsubj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 had | aux |
| 37 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 38 had | advmod |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 servant | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | the queen | a son | king | time | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary son=Patient | ||
| 2 | use | past | king | day | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | king not said here | the little boy | the minister's room | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 4 | shew | to-infinitive | king not said here | king | what a good servant obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | past · perfect | king | a good servant not said here | once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=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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