Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 31
Here are the soles of the Prime Minister’s boots in my wallet, and I propose to present them to His Majesty this afternoon during his public audience.
Who acts: soles, I · What happens: be, propose, present · To what, where: soles, Majesty
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 (soles, I), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soles | det |
| 4 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 boots | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Minister | det |
| 7 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 8 Minister | compound |
| 8 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 boots | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Minister | case |
| 10 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 soles | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wallet | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boots | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 propose | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 propose | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 propose | nsubj |
| 17 | propose | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 present | mark |
| 19 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 propose | ccomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 present | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Majesty | case |
| 22 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 present | obl |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 afternoon | det |
| 25 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 present | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | during | during | ADP | _ | 29 audience | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 audience | nmod:poss |
| 28 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 audience | amod |
| 29 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 present | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the soles of the Prime Minister's boots in my wallet | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | propose | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | present | to-infinitive | I not said here | soles = sole | Emperor's Majesty | during Emperor's public audience; afternoon | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to majesty=Recipient |
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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