Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 26
He then turned his prow homewards and many months later he was able to tell his king that the lovely picture maiden had been found.
Who acts: minister · What happens: turn, be, tell, find · To what, where: prow homewards, king, lovely picture maiden · 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 homewards | nmod:poss |
| 5 | prow | prow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 homewards | amod |
| 6 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 able | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 months | amod |
| 9 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 later | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 able | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 able | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 able | cop |
| 13 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 able | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 king | nmod:poss |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 found | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 maiden | det |
| 20 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 maiden | amod |
| 21 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 maiden | compound |
| 22 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tell | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | minister | minister's prow homewards | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | minister | able, late property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | minister not said here | minister's king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | find | past · perfect · passive | the lovely picture maiden | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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