Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 82
The minister was in despair, but he was a brave and loyal man and he resolved to save his master, even if it cost him his life.
Who acts: minister, master · What happens: be, resolve, save, cost · To what, where: despair, brave man, master, life, minister
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 (minister, master), 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 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 despair | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 despair | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 man | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 man | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 loyal | cc |
| 13 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brave | conj |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 despair | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 resolved | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 resolved | nsubj |
| 17 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 save | mark |
| 19 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 resolved | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 master | nmod:poss |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 save | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cost | punct |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 cost | advmod |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 cost | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cost | nsubj |
| 26 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 save | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cost | iobj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 life | nmod:poss |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cost | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the minister | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | minister | a brave man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | resolve | past | minister | a brave man not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | save | to-infinitive | minister not said here | minister's master | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cost a condition, not said to happen | past | master | minister's life | minister | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary life=Value |
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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