Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 74
After the wedding ceremony, the king and the princess will be so tired that directly their heads touch the pillow, they will go off to sleep.
Who acts: king, heads, parrot · What happens: be, touch, go off · To what, where: pillow
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, heads, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 ceremony | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ceremony | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ceremony | compound |
| 4 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tired | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ceremony | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tired | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 princess | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | conj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tired | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tired | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 tired | advmod |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 touch | mark |
| 16 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 19 touch | advmod |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heads | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 touch | nsubj |
| 19 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pillow | det |
| 21 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touch | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 touch | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tired | parataxis |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 go | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 sleep | case |
| 28 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the king and the princess | after the wedding ceremony | tired property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | touch | present | parrot's heads | the pillow | directly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pillow=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | go off | future | parrot | to sleep | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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