Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 104
The prime minister eager to get rid of him, urged the doctor to put poison in the royal medicine.
Who acts: prime minister eager · What happens: get, urge, put · To what, where: doctor, poison, royal medicine
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prime minister eager), 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 | 4 eager | det |
| 2 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eager | amod |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eager | compound |
| 4 | eager | eager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 urged | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eager | acl |
| 7 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eager | punct |
| 11 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 doctor | det |
| 13 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 urged | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 put | mark |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 urged | advcl |
| 16 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 medicine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 medicine | det |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 medicine | amod |
| 20 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 urged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | the prime minister eager not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | urge | past | the prime minister eager | the doctor | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | the prime minister eager not said here | poison | the royal medicine | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Theme in medicine=Destination |
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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