Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 12
In a great rage the young king sent for the chief minister and demanded on pain of instant death the eighth key.
What happens: send, demand, pain · To what, where: young king, pain, great rage, instant death
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 rage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rage | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rage | amod |
| 4 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rage | appos |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 king | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 minister | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 minister | det |
| 11 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 minister | amod |
| 12 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 demanded | cc |
| 14 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sent | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 pain | case |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 demanded | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 18 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 death | amod |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pain | nmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 key | det |
| 21 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 key | amod |
| 22 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 death | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | the young king not said here | for the chief minister | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | participle | pain of instant death the eighth key | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pain | instant death the eighth key | nom pain «state 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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