Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 90
The minister, however, had hidden himself behind a screen in the bridal chamber.
What happens: hide · To what, where: minister, screen
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: 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 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 minister | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 hidden | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hidden | aux |
| 7 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 hidden | obj |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 screen | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 screen | det |
| 11 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hidden | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 chamber | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chamber | det |
| 14 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chamber | amod |
| 15 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hidden | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · perfect · passive | the minister | a screen | in the bridal chamber; however property | tree rules |
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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