Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 64
But he will not live to pass the plate to all his courtiers, for it is poisoned and as he passes it round, the poison on it will enter the pores of his skin and will kill him in a few seconds.”
Who acts: king, poison · What happens: not live, pass, poison, enter, kill · To what, where: plate, courtiers, pores, king
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, poison), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 live | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 live | advmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pass | mark |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 live | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 plate | det |
| 9 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 courtiers | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 courtiers | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 poisoned | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 poisoned | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 poisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 poisoned | aux:pass |
| 18 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pass | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 enter | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 passes | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 passes | nsubj |
| 22 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 enter | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 passes | obj |
| 24 | round | round | ADV | _ | 22 passes | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 passes | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 poison | det |
| 27 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 enter | nsubj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 poison | nmod |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 enter | aux |
| 31 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 poisoned | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 pores | det |
| 33 | pores | pore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 enter | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 skin | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 skin | nmod:poss |
| 36 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pores | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 kill | cc |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 kill | aux |
| 39 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 live | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 kill | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 seconds | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 seconds | det |
| 43 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 seconds | amod |
| 44 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 kill | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | future | king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | king not said here | the plate | king's courtiers | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent plate=Theme to courtier=Recipient | |||
| 3 | poison | present · passive | plate | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | pass | present | king | plate | round property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | enter | future | the poison on plate | the pores of king's skin | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pore=Destination | ||||
| 6 | kill | future | king not said here | king | second | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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