Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 44
I have here, in my wallet, the whole of the viands which yesterday were placed before the Emperor for his consumption, and I propose at the audience to present them to him, and inform him what really happened.
Who acts: I, Emperor · What happens: have, place, propose, present, inform, happen · To what, where: wallet, audience, Emperor · 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 (I, Emperor), 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 have | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wallet | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wallet | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whole | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 whole | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wallet | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 viands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 viands | det |
| 13 | viands | viand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 whole | obl |
| 14 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 15 yesterday | det |
| 15 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 viands | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 placed | aux:pass |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | parataxis |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 Emperor | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Emperor | det |
| 20 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 consumption | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 consumption | nmod:poss |
| 23 | consumption | consumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 propose | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 propose | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 propose | nsubj |
| 27 | propose | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 placed | parataxis |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 audience | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 audience | det |
| 30 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 propose | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 present | mark |
| 32 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 propose | ccomp |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 present | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 present | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 inform | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 inform | cc |
| 38 | inform | inform | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 propose | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 inform | obj |
| 40 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 happened | nsubj |
| 41 | really | really | ADV | _ | 42 happened | advmod |
| 42 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 inform | ccomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | place | past · passive | my wallet | before the Emperor | for Emperor's consumption | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before emperor=Destination | |||
| 3 | propose | present | I | the audience | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | present | to-infinitive | I not said here | wallet | Emperor | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | inform speech: other | infinitive | I not said here | Emperor | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | happen | past | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | consume | Emperor | nom consumption «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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