Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 85
The king could not understand it, still in view of the minister’s great services he forgave him.
Who acts: king, minister · What happens: not understand, forgive, view, service · To what, where: head, view, minister, great services
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 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 understand | advmod |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 view | punct |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 view | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 view | case |
| 10 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understand | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 services | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 minister | det |
| 13 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 services | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 minister | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 services | amod |
| 16 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 view | nmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 forgave | nsubj |
| 18 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 services | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 forgave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | could | the king | head | view of the minister's great services | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | forgive | past | king | minister | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | view | the minister's great services | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | service | the minister | nom service «act transitive»: 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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