Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 107
The parrot answered “If he kills his own son and sprinkles his blood over the stone body, the minister will become flesh and blood once more.”
Who acts: parrot, king, minister · What happens: answer, kill, sprinkle, become · To what, where: own son, blood, stone body, flesh · 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, minister), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 become | punct |
| 5 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 kills | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kills | nsubj |
| 7 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 become | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 son | amod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kills | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sprinkles | cc |
| 12 | sprinkles | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kills | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 blood | nmod:poss |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprinkles | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 body | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 body | compound |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprinkles | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 become | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 minister | det |
| 21 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 become | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 become | aux |
| 23 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 24 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 become | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 blood | cc |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flesh | conj |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 more | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 become | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 become | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the parrot | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | king | king's own son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sprinkle in a quote | present | king not said here | king's blood | the stone body | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme over body=Destination | |||
| 4 | become in a quote | future | the minister | flesh and blood | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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