Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 57
The minister on seeing them went back to his seat in the bows of the ship, so that he might listen to what they said.
Who acts: minister, parrot · What happens: see, go back, listen, say · To what, where: parrot · 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 (minister, 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 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 seeing | mark |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 minister | acl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seeing | obj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 seat | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 seat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bows | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bows | det |
| 13 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seat | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ship | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ship | det |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bows | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 listen | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 listen | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 listen | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 listen | aux |
| 22 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 what | case |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 listen | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the minister not said here | parrot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | the minister | to minister's seat in the bows of the ship result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to seat=Result | ||||
| 3 | listen | might | minister | what obl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | 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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