Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 43
But the new Jam loved too warmly the beauty of his dancing girls and the jokes of his jesters to be a good ruler.
Who acts: new Jam, jesters · What happens: love, be, joke · To what, where: beauty, good ruler
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new Jam, jesters), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 loved | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Jam | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Jam | amod |
| 4 | Jam | Jam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 loved | nsubj |
| 5 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 warmly | advmod |
| 7 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 5 loved | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beauty | det |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loved | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 girls | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 girls | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girls | compound |
| 13 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beauty | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 jokes | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jokes | det |
| 16 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 girls | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 jesters | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 jesters | nmod:poss |
| 19 | jesters | jester | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 jokes | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ruler | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ruler | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ruler | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ruler | amod |
| 24 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loved | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the new Jam | the beauty of Chief's dancing girls and the jokes of Chief's jesters | warmly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the new Jam not said here | a good ruler | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | joke | Chief's jesters | nom joke «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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