Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 84
The King could no longer hesitate to fulfil his promise to the Boy, so he gave him his daughter in marriage, and presented him with half his kingdom.
Who acts: King, Boy · What happens: hesitate, fulfil, give, present, promise · To what, where: promise, daughter, marriage, Boy
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Boy), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hesitate | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hesitate | aux |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 longer | advmod |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 hesitate | advmod |
| 6 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fulfil | mark |
| 8 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hesitate | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 promise | nmod:poss |
| 10 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fulfil | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Boy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Boy | det |
| 13 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 promise | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 gave | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hesitate | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | iobj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 marriage | case |
| 22 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 presented | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 presented | cc |
| 25 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gave | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 presented | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 kingdom | case |
| 28 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 30 kingdom | det:predet |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 30 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 presented | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hesitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | could | the King | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fulfil | to-infinitive | the King not said here | King's promise | to the Boy | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | Boy | Boy's daughter | marriage | King iobj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme | ||
| 4 | present | past | Boy not said here | Boy | with Boy's kingdom | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with kingdom=Theme | |||
| 5 | promise | King | to the Boy | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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 from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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