Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 108
The doctor’s guilty conscience made him fear that the king guessed that the medicine was poisoned.
Who acts: guilty conscience, king · What happens: make, fear, guess, poison · To what, where: king, medicine · 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 (guilty conscience, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 conscience | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 doctor | case |
| 4 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 conscience | amod |
| 5 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 guessed | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 guessed | nsubj |
| 12 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fear | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 poisoned | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 medicine | det |
| 15 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 poisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 poisoned | aux:pass |
| 17 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 guessed | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the doctor's guilty conscience | king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fear | infinitive | king not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | guess | past | the king | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | poison | past · passive | the medicine | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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