Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 73
“Nay, well beloved, even then the king will not live long enough to make the princess happy.
Who acts: king · What happens: belov, not live, make · To what, where: princess
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 (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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 beloved | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 beloved | advmod |
| 5 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 then | advmod |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 live | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 live | advmod |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 beloved | parataxis |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 live | advmod |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 live | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belov in a quote | participle | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not live in a quote | future | the king | then | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the princess | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset princess=Product |
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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