Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 104
The king just because he was standing close to the minister was able to follow what they were saying.
Who acts: king, minister, servants · What happens: stand, be, follow, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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, minister, servants), 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 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 standing | advmod |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 standing | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 standing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | aux |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 able | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 able | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 minister | det |
| 11 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 able | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 able | cop |
| 13 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 standing | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 follow | mark |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 able | xcomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 saying | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saying | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saying | aux |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 follow | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the minister | able, close property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | the minister not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | servants = servant | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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