Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 29
After a voyage of several months and many hardships, they reached it and the minister again presented himself in the guise of a merchant before the princess’ father.
Who acts: hardships, minister · What happens: reach, present, voyage · To what, where: voyage, minister, guise, several months
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 (hardships, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 voyage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 voyage | det |
| 3 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 months | case |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 months | amod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 voyage | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hardships | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hardships | amod |
| 9 | hardships | hardship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 months | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 voyage | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 presented | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 minister | det |
| 16 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 presented | nsubj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 presented | advmod |
| 18 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reached | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 presented | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 guise | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 guise | det |
| 22 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 presented | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 merchant | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 merchant | det |
| 25 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 guise | nmod |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 father | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 father | compound |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 princess | punct |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 presented | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | hardships = hardship | voyage | after a voyage of several months and many hardships | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | present | past | the minister | minister | the guise of a merchant | before princess father; again | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 3 | voyage | several months and many hardships | nom voyage «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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