Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 96
There the old man asked to see the king before he died, as a last favour.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: ask, see, die · To what, where: king
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 (old man, man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 asked | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 died | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 favour | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 favour | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 favour | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 favour | amod |
| 17 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man | there | as a last favour | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | die | past | man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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