Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 7
The young prince was duly raised to the throne and the chief minister watched over him as if he had been his own son.
Who acts: chief minister, minister · What happens: raise, watch over, be · To what, where: young prince, throne, 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 (chief minister, minister), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 raised | aux:pass |
| 5 | duly | duly | ADV | _ | 6 raised | advmod |
| 6 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 throne | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watched | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 minister | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minister | amod |
| 13 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watched | nsubj |
| 14 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 raised | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 watched | advmod |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 watched | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 24 son | case |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 son | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 son | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 son | cop |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 son | amod |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watched | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past · passive | the young prince | the throne | duly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to throne=Destination | |||
| 2 | watch over | past | the chief minister | king | over property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | minister | as minister's own son | 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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