Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 58
The maina said “Tell me, please, what will happen to the king, if he escapes from the demon horse?
Who acts: maina · What happens: say, tell, happen, escape · To what, where: maina · 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 (maina), 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 | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tell | punct |
| 5 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Tell | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tell | punct |
| 8 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 Tell | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happen | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happen | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 happen | aux |
| 12 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 Tell | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 happen | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 escapes | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 escapes | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 escapes | nsubj |
| 19 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 happen | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 22 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 horse | compound |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 escapes | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the maina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the maina = maina | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | happen in a quote | future | to the king; what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | escape a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | maina | from the demon horse | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from horse=Initial_Location |
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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