Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 86
The wedding ceremonies of the king and his bride were celebrated with great splendour; and in the middle of them, the king seeing a beautiful gold plate stretched out his hand to take it and to collect alms for the officiating Brahmans.
Who acts: king · What happens: celebrate, see, stretch out, take, collect, officiate · To what, where: wedding ceremonies, beautiful gold plate, king, middle, plate, alms
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), 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 | 3 ceremonies | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceremonies | compound |
| 3 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceremonies | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bride | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bride | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 11 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 splendour | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 splendour | amod |
| 14 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 celebrated | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 stretched | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stretched | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 middle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 middle | det |
| 19 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stretched | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 middle | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 middle | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 king | acl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 plate | det |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 plate | amod |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 plate | compound |
| 29 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seeing | obj |
| 30 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 celebrated | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 stretched | compound:prt |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hand | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stretched | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 stretched | advcl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 collect | cc |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 collect | mark |
| 39 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 take | conj |
| 40 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 collect | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 Brahmans | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Brahmans | det |
| 43 | officiating | officiate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 Brahmans | amod |
| 44 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 39 collect | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding ceremonies of the king and king's bride | with great splendour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the king not said here | a beautiful gold plate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plate=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stretch out | participle · passive | the king | the middle of services | king's hand obj | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient hand=Result | |||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | plate | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | collect | to-infinitive | alms | for the officiating Brahmans | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme | ||||
| 6 | officiate | gerund | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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