Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 55
The parrot and the maina then flew away, leaving the minister, who had understood all that they had said, a prey to the cruelest anxiety.
Who acts: parrot · What happens: fly away, leave, understand, say · To what, where: minister, cruelest anxiety · 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 (parrot), 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 parrot | det |
| 2 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 maina | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maina | det |
| 5 | maina | maina | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 parrot | conj |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 flew | advmod |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 flew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaving | punct |
| 10 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 flew | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 minister | det |
| 12 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaving | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 understood | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 understood | aux |
| 16 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 minister | acl:relcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 said | det:predet |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 said | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 understood | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 prey | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 prey | det |
| 24 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 minister | appos |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 anxiety | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 anxiety | det |
| 27 | cruelest | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 anxiety | amod |
| 28 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaving | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the parrot | then | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the parrot not said here | the minister | the cruelest anxiety | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent minister=Theme to anxiety=Recipient | |||
| 3 | understand | past · perfect · passive | the minister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | parrot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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