Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 70
The next day, which was the last of the voyage, the disheartened minister went and sat in the prow of the ship, to hear anything more that the parrot might say to the maina.
Who acts: next day, disheartened minister, parrot · What happens: be, dishearten, go, sit, hear, say · To what, where: prow, anything, maina · 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 (next day, disheartened minister, parrot), 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 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 last | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 last | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 last | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 last | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 voyage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voyage | det |
| 11 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 last | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 minister | det |
| 14 | disheartened | dishearten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 minister | amod |
| 15 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sat | cc |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 prow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prow | det |
| 21 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 ship | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ship | det |
| 24 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prow | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hear | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 hear | mark |
| 27 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sat | conj |
| 28 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 hear | obj |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 hear | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 say | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 parrot | det |
| 32 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 say | nsubj |
| 33 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 say | aux |
| 34 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hear | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 maina | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 maina | det |
| 37 | maina | maina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 say | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the next day | of the voyage; last property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dishearten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | the disheartened minister | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | the disheartened minister not said here | the prow of the ship | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in prow=Location | ||||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive | the disheartened minister not said here | anything | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | might | the parrot | the maina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maina=Recipient |
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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