Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 60
“Nay, my heart’s desire,” said the parrot, “the king and the princess will never, I fear, be happy together.
Who acts: desire, heart · What happens: say, not fear, be, desire · 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 (desire, heart), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 desire | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 desire | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 desire | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 desire | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 7 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 desire | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 desire | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 parrot | det |
| 12 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 parrot | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 princess | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 parrot | conj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 fear | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 fear | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fear | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 fear | nsubj |
| 24 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 parrot | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 happy | punct |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 happy | cop |
| 27 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | parataxis |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 happy | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my heart's desire | the parrot and the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fear in a quote | future | my heart's desire = desire | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | happy, together property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | desire in a quote | my heart | nom desire «feeling 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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