Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 78
“Yes, well beloved,” said the parrot, “there is one chance of his escape, but it is so remote that the king is sure to die.
Who acts: parrot, one chance, way, king, escape, chance · What happens: belov, say, be, die, chance, escape · To what, where: parrot · 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 (parrot, one chance, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 beloved | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 beloved | advmod |
| 5 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beloved | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parrot | det |
| 10 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 parrot | acl:relcl |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 chance | nummod |
| 16 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 escape | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 escape | nmod:poss |
| 19 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chance | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 remote | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 remote | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 remote | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 remote | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 remote | advmod |
| 25 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 sure | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sure | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 sure | cop |
| 30 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 remote | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 die | mark |
| 32 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 sure | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | 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 | say speech: assert | past | the parrot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | one chance of chance's escape | the parrot not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot parrot=Theme | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | way | remote property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the king | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | chance in a quote | chance's escape | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | escape in a quote | chance | nom escape «act 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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