Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 89
After the wedding ceremonies were over, the king and queen tired out with the fatigues of the day went to rest; and so sleepy were they that directly their heads touched their pillows, they fell asleep.
Who acts: wedding ceremonies, fatigues · What happens: be, go, rest, fall, fatigue · To what, where: day
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 (wedding ceremonies, fatigues), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 over | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ceremonies | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ceremonies | compound |
| 4 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 over | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 over | cop |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 tired | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 over | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tired | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 queen | cc |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | conj |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 tired | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 went | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fatigues | det |
| 16 | fatigues | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 went | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fatigues | nmod |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tired | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 rest | mark |
| 22 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 sleepy | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sleepy | cc |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 sleepy | advmod |
| 26 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tired | conj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 touched | cop |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 touched | nsubj |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 they | det |
| 30 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 33 touched | advmod |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 heads | nmod:poss |
| 32 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 touched | nsubj |
| 33 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tired | advcl |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 pillows | nmod:poss |
| 35 | pillows | pillow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 touched | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fell | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 fell | nsubj |
| 38 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 touched | conj |
| 39 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 fell | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wedding ceremonies | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the fatigues of the day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | the fatigues of the day not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | fatigues = fatigue | fatigues's heads nsubj; fatigues's pillows obj; directly, touch property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | fatigues = fatigue | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fatigue | the day | nom fatigue «state 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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