Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 14
“And I,” said the third, “can steal another man’s dinner from off his plate, and eat my fill as he sits at table, without the victim, or the man sitting opposite, being able to detect me.”
Who acts: I, line, man · What happens: say, steal, eat, sit, be, detect · To what, where: third, dinner, plate, fill, table, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, line, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 I | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 third | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 steal | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 steal | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 steal | aux |
| 12 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 man | case |
| 16 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steal | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 plate | case |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 plate | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 plate | nmod:poss |
| 20 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 steal | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eat | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eat | cc |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 steal | parataxis |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fill | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eat | obj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 sits | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sits | nsubj |
| 28 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 eat | advcl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 table | case |
| 30 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sits | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 victim | punct |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 34 victim | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 victim | det |
| 34 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sits | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sitting | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 sitting | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sitting | nsubj |
| 39 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 said | ccomp |
| 40 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 sitting | xcomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 able | punct |
| 42 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 able | cop |
| 43 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 opposite | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 detect | mark |
| 45 | detect | detect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 able | xcomp |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 detect | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 sitting | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | the third | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | steal in a quote | can | another man's dinner | line's plate | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme from plate=Source | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | infinitive | my fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sit in a quote | present | line | table | without the victim | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | |||
| 5 | sit in a quote | gerund | the man | opposite property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | gerund | the man not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | detect in a quote | to-infinitive | the man not said here | me | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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