Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 4
Feeling death approach, he sent for his chief minister and gave him the eight keys of his eight treasure chambers.
Who acts: hope · What happens: feel, send, give · To what, where: death approach, eight keys, 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 (hope), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sent | advcl |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approach | compound |
| 3 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Feeling | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feeling | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 minister | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 minister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minister | amod |
| 10 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 keys | det |
| 15 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 keys | nummod |
| 16 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 chambers | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 chambers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 chambers | nummod |
| 20 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chambers | compound |
| 21 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keys | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | hope not said here | death approach | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approach=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | hope | for hope's chief minister | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past | hope not said here | the eight keys of hope's eight treasure chambers | hope | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient key=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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