Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 94
They were both very angry at seeing the minister in their room and the king called to his guards to seize the minister and hang him early next morning from the battlements of the palace.
Who acts: queens · What happens: be, see, call, seize, hang · To what, where: minister, room, king, guards, battlements · 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 (queens), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 seeing | mark |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 angry | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minister | det |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seeing | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 room | nmod:poss |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seeing | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 king | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 room | conj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 king | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 guards | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 guards | nmod:poss |
| 19 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 called | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 seize | mark |
| 21 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 called | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 minister | det |
| 23 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seize | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hang | cc |
| 25 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seize | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hang | obj |
| 27 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 hang | advmod |
| 28 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 morning | amod |
| 29 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hang | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 battlements | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 battlements | det |
| 32 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hang | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 palace | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 palace | det |
| 35 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 battlements | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | queens = queen | angry, both property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | queens = queen not said here | the minister | queens's room and the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer minister=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | call | participle | the king not said here | king's guards | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to guard=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | seize | to-infinitive | the minister | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hang | infinitive | minister | the battlements of the palace | morning | early property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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