Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 4
The second was able to cut the soles off a man’s boots as he walked along the road without the victim knowing that he had been robbed.
Who acts: second, theft, victim · What happens: be, cut, walk, know, rob · To what, where: soles, road, theft · 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 (second, theft, victim), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 able | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 cut | mark |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soles | det |
| 8 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cut | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 boots | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boots | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 man | case |
| 13 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cut | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 walked | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 walked | nsubj |
| 16 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | advcl |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walked | obl |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 victim | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 victim | det |
| 22 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walked | obl |
| 23 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 victim | acl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 robbed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 robbed | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 robbed | aux:pass |
| 28 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 knowing | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the second | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | to-infinitive | the second not said here | the soles | off a man's boots | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sole=Patient off boot=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | walk | past | theft | the road | without the victim | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | know | gerund | the victim not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | rob | past · perfect · passive | theft | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
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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