Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 66
“Is there no way,” she sobbed, “to save the poor king?”
Who acts: poison · What happens: be, sob, save · To what, where: way, poor king · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sobbed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sobbed | nsubj |
| 9 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 save | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 save | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 save | mark |
| 13 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sobbed | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 king | amod |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 save | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 save | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | no way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sob | past | poison | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | poison not said here | the poor king | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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