Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 81
“If you give him opium,” said the queen, “you will never take him alive, he will kill you.”
Who acts: you, queen, Mansing · What happens: give, say, not take, kill · To what, where: opium, Mansing, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, queen, Mansing), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | opium | opium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 take | advmod |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 take | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kill | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kill | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 kill | aux |
| 23 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 take | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 kill | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | opium | Mansing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient opium=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not take in a quote | future | you | Mansing | alive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 4 | kill in a quote | future | Mansing | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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