Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 111
He sent for the prime minister and bade him drink the poisoned medicine.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, drink, poison · To what, where: poisoned 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 minister | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 minister | det |
| 5 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 minister | amod |
| 6 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bade | cc |
| 8 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 minister | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drink | nsubj |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 medicine | det |
| 12 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 medicine | amod |
| 13 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drink | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | king | for the prime minister and bade | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drink | present | king | the poisoned medicine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient | ||||
| 3 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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