Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 40
Such a thing as this had never occurred before in the palace.
What happens: not occur · To what, where: thing
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: 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 thing | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 occurred | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thing | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 occurred | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 occurred | advmod |
| 8 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 occurred | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not occur | past · perfect · passive | such thing as this | before the palace | 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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