Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 32
I shall thus earn the gratitude of the Prime Minister and appease the wrath of the Emperor.”
Who acts: I · What happens: earn, appease · To what, where: gratitude, wrath
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 earn | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 earn | aux |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 earn | advmod |
| 4 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gratitude | det |
| 6 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 earn | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Minister | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Minister | det |
| 9 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 10 Minister | compound |
| 10 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gratitude | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 appease | cc |
| 12 | appease | appease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 earn | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wrath | det |
| 14 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appease | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Emperor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Emperor | det |
| 17 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wrath | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 earn | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | shall | I | the gratitude of the Prime Minister | thus property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme | |||
| 2 | appease | infinitive | I not said here | the wrath of the Emperor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wrath=Experiencer |
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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