Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 112
The minister learning of the death of the little prince prayed so earnestly to God to bring him back to life that his prayer was granted.
Who acts: minister learning, little prince, learning · What happens: pray, bring back, grant, die · To what, where: God, learning, life, prayer
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 (minister learning, little prince, learning), 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 | 3 learning | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learning | compound |
| 3 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prayed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 death | det |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learning | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prince | amod |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 death | nmod |
| 11 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 earnestly | advmod |
| 13 | earnestly | earnestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prayed | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 God | case |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 prayed | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 prayed | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 bring | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 granted | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 24 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 granted | aux:pass |
| 26 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bring | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | the minister learning of the death of the little prince | God | earnestly property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | bring back | to-infinitive | the minister learning of the death of the little prince not said here | learning | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Destination | |||
| 3 | grant | past · passive | learning's prayer | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | the little prince | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | pray | learning | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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