Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 38
At last she dried her eyes and promised to be his queen directly the ship brought them to his country.
Who acts: princess, ship · What happens: dry, promise, be, bring · To what, where: eyes, last, queen, country
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, ship), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dried | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dried | nsubj |
| 4 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dried | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 promised | cc |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dried | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 queen | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 queen | cop |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 queen | nmod:poss |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 promised | xcomp |
| 13 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 15 ship | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 queen | acl:relcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 country | nmod:poss |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | princess | princess's eyes | last | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | princess not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | king's queen | king nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bring | past | the ship | eyes = eye | king's country | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to country=Destination |
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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