Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 61
Even although the king escapes from the demon horse he will still be in the gravest peril.
Who acts: king · What happens: escape, be · To what, where: demon horse, gravest peril
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 (king), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 escapes | advmod |
| 2 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 escapes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 escapes | nsubj |
| 5 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 8 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horse | compound |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 escapes | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 peril | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 peril | aux |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 peril | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 peril | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 peril | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 peril | det |
| 16 | gravest | grave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 peril | amod |
| 17 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horse | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 escapes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | present | the king | from the demon horse | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from horse=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | future | king | the demon horse not said here | the gravest peril | still | tree rules |
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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