Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 39
The journey took many weary months, but at last they were only three days sail off and the king and betrothed, as happy as possible, together were walking up and down the deck, hand in hand.
Who acts: journey, eyes, last three days · What happens: take, be, sail off, betroth, walk up · To what, where: last three days
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 (journey, eyes, last three days), 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 journey | det |
| 2 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 months | amod |
| 5 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 months | amod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sail | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 sail | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 days | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 days | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 three | advmod |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 days | nummod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sail | nsubj |
| 16 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 sail | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 happy | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 happy | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 betrothed | cc |
| 22 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 king | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 happy | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 happy | advmod |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sail | conj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 possible | mark |
| 27 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 happy | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 walking | punct |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 31 walking | advmod |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 walking | aux |
| 31 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 32 | up | up | ADV | _ | 31 walking | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 deck | cc |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 deck | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 deck | det |
| 36 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 walking | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hand | punct |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 deck | appos |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 hand | case |
| 40 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hand | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the journey | month | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | eyes = eye | last three days | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sail off | present | last three days | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | betroth | participle | last three days not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | walk up | past · progressive | the journey not said here | the deck conj; together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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