Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 84
The king was very angry and asked the minister why he had done it; but the minister dared not explain for fear of a third part of his body being turned into stone.
Who acts: king, minister · What happens: be, ask, do, explain, turn, fear · To what, where: minister, head, fear, stone, third part
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, minister), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minister | det |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 done | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 done | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 explain | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 explain | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 minister | det |
| 18 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 explain | nsubj |
| 19 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 explain | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 dared | advmod |
| 21 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 fear | case |
| 23 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 explain | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 part | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 part | det |
| 26 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 part | amod |
| 27 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fear | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 body | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 body | nmod:poss |
| 30 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 part | nmod |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 turned | aux:pass |
| 32 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 fear | acl |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 stone | case |
| 34 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turned | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the king not said here | the minister | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | king | head | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | past | the minister | for fear of a third part of minister's body | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | turn | gerund · passive | fear of a third part of minister's body not said here | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | fear | a third part of minister's body | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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