Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 67
“Yes, my beloved,” answered the parrot, “if anyone were to put on gloves and snatch away the plate before the king can handle it, he will be saved.
Who acts: beloved, anyone, king · What happens: answer, put, snatch away, handle, save · To what, where: parrot, gloves, plate, 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 (beloved, anyone, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 beloved | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parrot | det |
| 10 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 snatch | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 snatch | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 14 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 put | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 snatch | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 gloves | case |
| 19 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 snatch | cc |
| 21 | snatch | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 22 | away | away | ADP | _ | 21 snatch | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 plate | det |
| 24 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 snatch | obj |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 handle | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 handle | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 handle | aux |
| 29 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 snatch | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 handle | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 snatch | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 saved | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 saved | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 saved | aux:pass |
| 35 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 snatch | parataxis |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | my beloved | the parrot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | anyone | gloves | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on glove=Destination | ||||
| 3 | snatch away in a quote | present | the plate | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | |||||
| 4 | handle in a quote | can | the king | plate | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | save in a quote | future · passive | king | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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