Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 18
The minister and the courtiers sprinkled rosewater over their prostrate master and at last revived him; but he vowed that unless the minister promised to bring him the lovely picture maiden, he would not only refuse to reign, but would starve himself to death.
Who acts: minister · What happens: sprinkle, revive, vow, promise, bring, not refuse · To what, where: rosewater, prostrate master, minister, last, lovely picture maiden
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), 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 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 courtiers | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 courtiers | det |
| 5 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 minister | conj |
| 6 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | rosewater | rosewater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprinkled | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 master | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | prostrate | prostrate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 master | amod |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprinkled | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 revived | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 revived | obl |
| 15 | revived | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sprinkled | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 revived | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 vowed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 vowed | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 vowed | nsubj |
| 20 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sprinkled | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 refuse | mark |
| 22 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 25 promised | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 minister | det |
| 24 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 promised | nsubj |
| 25 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 refuse | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 bring | mark |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 promised | xcomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | obj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 maiden | det |
| 30 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 maiden | amod |
| 31 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 maiden | compound |
| 32 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bring | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 promised | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 refuse | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 refuse | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 refuse | advmod |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 refuse | advmod |
| 38 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 vowed | ccomp |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 reign | mark |
| 40 | reign | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 refuse | xcomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 starve | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 starve | cc |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 starve | aux |
| 44 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 vowed | conj |
| 45 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 starve | obj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 death | case |
| 47 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 starve | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | past | the minister and the courtiers | rosewater | eyes's prostrate master | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rosewater=Theme over master=Destination | |||
| 2 | revive | past | the minister and the courtiers not said here | minister | last | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | vow | past | minister | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen | past | the minister | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | the minister not said here | the lovely picture maiden | minister | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination maiden=Theme | |||
| 6 | not refuse | would | minister | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | reign not said to happen | to-infinitive | minister not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | starve | would | minister not said here | minister | to death | tree rules |
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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