Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 24
The minister was taken to the king and queen who shewed them their daughter and all agreed that she was the original of the portrait.
Who acts: queen, princess · What happens: take, shew, agree, be · To what, where: minister, king, queens, original · 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 (queen, princess), 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 | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 queen | cc |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | conj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 shewed | nsubj |
| 11 | shewed | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 queen | acl:relcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shewed | obj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shewed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 agreed | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 agreed | advmod |
| 17 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 original | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 original | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 original | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 original | det |
| 22 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 agreed | ccomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 portrait | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 portrait | det |
| 25 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 original | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the minister | the king and queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to king=Destination | ||||
| 2 | shew | past | queen | queens = queen | queens's daughter obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | princess | the original | of the portrait | 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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