Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 48
He will be given the most beautiful horse of all to ride; but that horse is not really a horse at all, but a demon.
Who acts: horse · What happens: give, ride, not be · To what, where: king, horse, all
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 (horse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 horse | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ride | mark |
| 12 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 horse | acl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 horse | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 horse | cc |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 horse | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 horse | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 horse | advmod |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 horse | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 horse | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 demon | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 demon | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 demon | det |
| 27 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future · passive | king | the beautiful horse of all obj; a demon parataxis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is a | present | that horse | a horse | all | tree rules |
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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