Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 29
It was no use for the wretched man to protest his innocence or to plead for mercy.
Who acts: Minister · What happens: be, protest, plead · To what, where: use, innocence
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 (Minister), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 use | det |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 protest | mark |
| 10 | protest | protest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 innocence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 protest | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 plead | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 plead | mark |
| 15 | plead | plead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 protest | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 mercy | case |
| 17 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plead | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Minister | no use | for the wretched man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | protest speech: disagree | to-infinitive | Minister not said here | Emperor's innocence | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocence=Topic | ||||
| 3 | plead speech: request | to-infinitive | Minister not said here | for mercy | tree rules |
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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