Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 77
The maina was dreadfully sorry to hear this new danger and asked tearfully whether there was no way by which the king could escape from that death also.
Who acts: maina, way, king · What happens: be, hear, ask, escape · To what, where: new danger, death · 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 (maina, way, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maina | det |
| 2 | maina | maina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sorry | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 danger | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 danger | amod |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hear | conj |
| 13 | tearfully | tearfully | ADV | _ | 12 asked | advmod |
| 14 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 escape | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 escape | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 escape | aux |
| 24 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 way | acl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 death | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 death | det |
| 27 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 escape | obl |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 escape | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the maina | dreadfully, sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the maina not said here | this new danger | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the maina not said here | tearfully property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be | past | no way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | escape | could | the king | that death | by no way | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from death=Initial_Location |
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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