Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 32
The princess gave a cry of delight on seeing all these wonderful play-things; but the minister said “These are nothing to what you will see, if you will visit our ship.
Who acts: princess, minister, you, delight · What happens: give, see, say, be, visit, cry · To what, where: cry, wonderful play things, nothing, ship · 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 (princess, minister, you, delight), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 delight | case |
| 7 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 seeing | mark |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gave | advcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 things | det:predet |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 things | det |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 13 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 things | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 play | punct |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seeing | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 minister | det |
| 19 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 nothing | punct |
| 22 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 nothing | det |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 nothing | cop |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 said | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 what | case |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 nothing | nmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 see | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 see | aux |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 visit | punct |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 visit | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 visit | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 visit | aux |
| 34 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | conj |
| 35 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 ship | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 visit | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the princess | a cry of delight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the princess not said here | all wonderful play things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the minister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | nothing | what nmod | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | visit a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | our ship | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | cry | delight | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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