Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 63
He will be so pleased with it, that he will pick it up and pass it round among his courtiers to collect alms for the Brahmans, who are conducting the ceremony.
Who acts: king, Brahmans · What happens: be, pick up, pass, collect, conduct · To what, where: wedding, courtiers, alms, ceremony
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, Brahmans), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pleased | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pick | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 pick | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pick | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pick | aux |
| 12 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleased | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pick | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pick | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pass | cc |
| 16 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pick | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pass | obj |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 pass | advmod |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 courtiers | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pass | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 collect | mark |
| 23 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pass | advcl |
| 24 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 collect | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 Brahmans | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Brahmans | det |
| 27 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 alms | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 conducting | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 conducting | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 conducting | aux |
| 31 | conducting | conduct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 Brahmans | acl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ceremony | det |
| 33 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 conducting | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | king | with wedding; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick up | future | king | wedding | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pass | infinitive | king not said here | wedding | king's courtiers | round property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme among courtier=Destination | ||
| 4 | collect | to-infinitive | king not said here | alms | for the Brahmans | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme | |||
| 5 | conduct | present · progressive | the Brahmans | the ceremony | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Theme |
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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