Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 72
“Dear Parrot,” said the maina, “if the king is not poisoned by the plate, will he and the princess not even then marry and live happy together ever afterwards?”
Who acts: Dear Parrot, king · What happens: say, not poison, not marry, live · To what, where: 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 (Dear Parrot, 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 | _ | 3 Parrot | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Parrot | amod |
| 3 | Parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Parrot | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Parrot | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maina | det |
| 8 | maina | maina | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 marry | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 marry | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 poisoned | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 poisoned | aux:pass |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 poisoned | advmod |
| 16 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 marry | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 plate | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plate | det |
| 19 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poisoned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 poisoned | punct |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 marry | aux |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 marry | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 princess | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 princess | det |
| 25 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 he | conj |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 marry | advmod |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 then | advmod |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 marry | advmod |
| 29 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 maina | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 live | cc |
| 31 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 marry | conj |
| 32 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 live | xcomp |
| 33 | together | together | ADV | _ | 31 live | advmod |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 afterwards | advmod |
| 35 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 31 live | advmod |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Dear Parrot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not poison a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | the king | by the plate | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not marry in a quote | future | king | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | infinitive | king not said here | ever | afterwards, happy, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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