Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 6
The chief minister promised faithfully to do his master’s bidding and the old king died in his arms.
Who acts: chief minister, old king, master · What happens: promise, do, die, bid · To what, where: bidding
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 (chief minister, old king, master), 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 | 3 minister | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minister | amod |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 4 promised | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 master | case |
| 11 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 died | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 king | amod |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 died | nsubj |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 arms | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 arms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 died | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the chief minister | faithfully property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chief minister not said here | minister's master's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | die | past | the old king | in minister's arms | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in arm=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | bid | minister's master | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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