Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 25
He was a very stout man, dressed in his finest robes, and with a new pair of boots on his feet.
Who acts: line · What happens: be, dress · To what, where: stout man, finest robes
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 (line), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 man | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 stout | advmod |
| 5 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 man | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 robes | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 robes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 robes | amod |
| 12 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dressed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pair | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pair | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 pair | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pair | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pair | amod |
| 18 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 boots | case |
| 20 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pair | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 feet | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 boots | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | line | a stout man and a new pair of boots on line's feet | a new pair of boots on line's feet conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | a stout man and a new pair of boots on line's feet not said here | line's finest robes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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 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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