Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 114
She agreed that the king had acted rightly, even though his act would but for God’s mercy, have cost her her son.
Who acts: prayer, king · What happens: agree, act, cost · To what, where: son · 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 (prayer, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 acted | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acted | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 acted | aux |
| 7 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 agreed | ccomp |
| 8 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 7 acted | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cost | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 would | advmod |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 would | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 act | nmod:poss |
| 13 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 would | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 cost | aux |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 cost | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 mercy | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 God | case |
| 19 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cost | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mercy | punct |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 cost | aux |
| 22 | cost | cost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 agreed | ccomp |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cost | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | prayer | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | act | past · perfect | the king | rightly property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cost | would · perfect | prayer's son | for God's mercy | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme son=Value | ||||
| 4 | act | king | nom act «communication 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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