Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 50
The maina was affected to tears by this story; for she loved the parrot dearly and knew how the princess would grieve at the loss of her betrothed.
Who acts: story, princess · What happens: affect, love, know, grieve, betroth · To what, where: maina, parrot, loss · 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 (story, princess), 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 maina | det |
| 2 | maina | maina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 affected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 affected | aux:pass |
| 4 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tears | case |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 affected | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 affected | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 loved | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 loved | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loved | nsubj |
| 13 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 affected | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 parrot | det |
| 15 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loved | obj |
| 16 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 13 loved | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knew | cc |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 loved | conj |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 grieve | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grieve | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 grieve | aux |
| 23 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 knew | ccomp |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 loss | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 loss | det |
| 26 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grieve | obl |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 betrothed | mark |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 betrothed | nmod:poss |
| 29 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 loss | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 affected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | past · passive | this story | the maina | to tears | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | love | past | story | the parrot | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know | past | story not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | grieve | would | the princess | the loss | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | betroth | participle | the loss not said here | princess nmod:poss | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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