Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 25
The minister told the king that he was a merchant and after giving the king splendid gifts stayed in the country until he had sold all his merchandise.
Who acts: minister · What happens: tell, be, give, stay, sell · To what, where: king, merchant, splendid gifts, country, merchandise · 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 (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 | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 merchant | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 merchant | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 merchant | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stayed | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 giving | mark |
| 13 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 stayed | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giving | obj |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gifts | amod |
| 17 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 giving | obj |
| 18 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stayed | obl |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 sold | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sold | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sold | aux |
| 25 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 stayed | advcl |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 merchandise | det:predet |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 merchandise | nmod:poss |
| 28 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sold | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the minister | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | minister | a merchant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | splendid gifts | the king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stay | past | the minister not said here | the country | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 5 | sell | past · perfect | minister | minister's merchandise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=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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