Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 13
The old statesman fell at his young master’s feet and telling him with many tears the whole story handed him the eighth key.
Who acts: old statesman, whole story · What happens: fall, tell, hand · To what, where: feet, statesman, eighth key · 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 (old statesman, whole story), 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 statesman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 statesman | amod |
| 3 | statesman | statesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | amod |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 master | case |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 handed | cc |
| 12 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 handed | csubj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 telling | iobj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 tears | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tears | amod |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 telling | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 story | amod |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 handed | nsubj |
| 20 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 handed | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 key | det |
| 23 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 key | amod |
| 24 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 handed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the old statesman | statesman's young master's feet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | statesman | with many tears | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hand | past | the whole story | the eighth key | statesman | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination key=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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