Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 115
Lastly he made the Brahman boy, whose wisdom had saved his life, Prime Minister and loaded him with honours.
Who acts: king · What happens: make, save, load · To what, where: Brahman boy, wisdom, king
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 | Lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 5 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | compound |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saved | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saved | aux |
| 11 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 boy | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saved | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Minister | punct |
| 15 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 16 Minister | compound |
| 16 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 life | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 loaded | cc |
| 18 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 loaded | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 honours | case |
| 21 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 loaded | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | king | the Brahman boy | lastly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Product | |||
| 2 | save | past · perfect · passive | wisdom | king's life Prime Minister obj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | load | past | king not said here | king | with honours | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with honour=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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