Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 89
The king questioned him closely, but no question would he answer.
Who acts: king, question · What happens: question, answer · To what, where: VIDHYA
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, question), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 questioned | nsubj |
| 3 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 questioned | obj |
| 5 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 3 questioned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answer | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 answer | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 question | det |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answer | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 answer | aux |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answer | nsubj |
| 12 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 questioned | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 questioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | past | the king | VIDHYA | closely property | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | would | no question | king nsubj | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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