Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 76
When the king wakes out of his first sleep and kisses the princess, he will touch the poison with his lips and will die instantly.”
Who acts: king · What happens: wake, kiss, touch, die, sleep · To what, where: first sleep, princess, poison
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 wakes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wakes | nsubj |
| 4 | wakes | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 touch | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sleep | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sleep | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 sleep | amod |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wakes | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kisses | cc |
| 11 | kisses | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wakes | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kisses | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wakes | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 touch | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 touch | aux |
| 17 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 poison | det |
| 19 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touch | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 lips | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lips | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 poison | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 die | cc |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 die | aux |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 touch | conj |
| 26 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 25 die | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 touch | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | present | the king | king's first sleep | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kiss | present | the king not said here | the princess | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | touch | future | king | the poison | with king's lips | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent poison=Experiencer with lip=Instrument | |||
| 4 | die | future | king not said here | instantly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | sleep | king | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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