Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 106
As the king lifted his gold cup to his lips, he saw engraved on it the words “Do nothing without thinking deeply first.”
Who acts: king · What happens: lift, engrave, do, think · To what, where: gold cup, lips, king, draught, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 lifted | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | nsubj |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 engraved | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cup | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cup | compound |
| 7 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 lips | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lips | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lifted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 engraved | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 engraved | aux:pass |
| 14 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 engraved | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 words | det |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 engraved | obj |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Do | punct |
| 20 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 engraved | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 Do | obj |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 thinking | mark |
| 23 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 Do | advcl |
| 24 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 25 first | advmod |
| 25 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 thinking | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Do | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the king | king's gold cup | king's lips | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cup=Theme to lip=Destination | |||
| 2 | engrave | past · passive | king | draught | the words obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | gerund | first property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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