Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 88
The king was still more angry especially as the minister, afraid of being turned into stone, would not say why he had done it.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, turn, not say, do · To what, where: stone, plate · 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 (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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 10 minister | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 minister | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 minister | det |
| 10 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 afraid | punct |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 angry | conj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 turned | mark |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 turned | aux:pass |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 afraid | advcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 say | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 say | advmod |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 afraid | parataxis |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 done | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 done | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 say | ccomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 done | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | still | as the minister; angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | turn | gerund · passive | the king not said here | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | would | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | king | plate | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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