Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 2
His darling wish was to see his son of an age to succeed him before he died.
Who acts: darling wish, king · What happens: see, succeed, die, wish · To what, where: son, king
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 (darling wish, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nmod:poss |
| 2 | darling | darling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wish | amod |
| 3 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 age | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 age | det |
| 11 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 succeed | mark |
| 13 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 succeed | obj |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 died | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 died | nsubj |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 succeed | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | king's darling wish | king's son of a age | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | succeed | to-infinitive | king's darling wish not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | past | king | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | wish | king | nom wish «feeling 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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