Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 108
The king thought long and deeply where his duty lay; at last he felt that he owed more to the faithful minister who had saved his life three times than to his son.
Who acts: king, duty · What happens: think, lie, feel, owe, save · To what, where: last, more, faithful minister
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, duty), 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 | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lay | cc |
| 6 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 duty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 owed | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 owed | nsubj |
| 18 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | advcl |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 owed | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 minister | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 minister | det |
| 22 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 minister | amod |
| 23 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 owed | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 saved | aux |
| 26 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 minister | acl:relcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saved | obj |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 times | nummod |
| 30 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 saved | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 son | case |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 son | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 son | nmod:poss |
| 34 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saved | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the king | long property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | king's duty | deeply property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | king | last | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location | ||||
| 4 | owe | past | king | more | to the faithful minister goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent more=Theme to minister=Goal | |||
| 5 | save | past · perfect · passive | the faithful minister | time | than king's son; king's life obj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=Theme |
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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