Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 3
But as kings even are only pawns in the hands of the great chessplayer, his hope was never fulfilled.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, not fulfil, hope · To what, where: pawns, hands, hope
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 fulfilled | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 kings | case |
| 3 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fulfilled | obl |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 pawns | advmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pawns | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 pawns | advmod |
| 7 | pawns | pawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kings | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hands | det |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pawns | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chessplayer | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chessplayer | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chessplayer | amod |
| 14 | chessplayer | chessplayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hands | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kings | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hope | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 fulfilled | advmod |
| 20 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | pawns | the hands of the great chessplayer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fulfil | past · passive | king's hope | as kings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hope | king | nom hope «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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