Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 105
The parrot said to the maina “The king is very sad at the fate of his minister; but he could bring him back to life now, if he wanted to.”
Who acts: parrot, king · What happens: say, be, bring back, want, fate · To what, where: fate, minister, life · 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 (parrot, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 parrot | det |
| 2 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 maina | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maina | det |
| 6 | maina | maina | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sad | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sad | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sad | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 sad | advmod |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maina | amod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 fate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fate | det |
| 15 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sad | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 minister | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 minister | nmod:poss |
| 18 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fate | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 bring | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 bring | aux |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | obj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 bring | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obl |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 bring | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wanted | punct |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 wanted | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wanted | nsubj |
| 32 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 bring | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 wanted | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the parrot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the king | the fate of king's minister | sad property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring back in a quote | could | king | minister | life | now | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Destination | ||
| 4 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | fate in a quote | king's minister | nom fate «event 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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