Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 92
The Nagar was at first delighted at his son’s escape; then he began to reflect that his son must always feign insanity or the king would learn that he had been tricked and would certainly cut Vidhya’s head off.
Who acts: Nagar, king, son · What happens: be, begin, reflect, feign, learn, trick · To what, where: escape, insanity, king, head
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 (Nagar, king, son), 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 Nagar | det |
| 2 | Nagar | Nagar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 first | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 delighted | obl |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 escape | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 escape | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 son | case |
| 11 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 began | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 reflect | mark |
| 17 | reflect | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 feign | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feign | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 feign | aux |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 feign | advmod |
| 23 | feign | feign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reflect | advcl |
| 24 | insanity | insanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feign | obj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 learn | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 learn | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 learn | aux |
| 29 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 insanity | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 tricked | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 tricked | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 tricked | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 tricked | aux:pass |
| 34 | tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 learn | advcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 cut | cc |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 cut | aux |
| 37 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 38 cut | advmod |
| 38 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 tricked | conj |
| 39 | Vidhya | Vidhya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 head | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 Vidhya | case |
| 41 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cut | obj |
| 42 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 cut | compound:prt |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Nagar | king's son's escape | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | past | king | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | reflect | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feign | must | king's son | insanity | always property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insanity=Patient | |||
| 5 | learn | would | the king | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | trick | past · perfect · passive | king | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | cut off | would | Vidhya's head | certainly property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | escape | king's son | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=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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