Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 45
He will undoubtedly pardon me when he hears the story, and I shall earn the undying gratitude of all the disgraced officials by procuring their release.”
Who acts: Emperor, I · What happens: pardon, hear, earn, disgrace, procure · To what, where: me, story, undying gratitude, release
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 (Emperor, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pardon | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pardon | aux |
| 3 | undoubtedly | undoubtedly | ADV | _ | 4 pardon | advmod |
| 4 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pardon | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 hears | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hears | nsubj |
| 8 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pardon | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hears | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 earn | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 earn | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 earn | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 earn | aux |
| 15 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pardon | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gratitude | det |
| 17 | undying | undying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gratitude | amod |
| 18 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 earn | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 officials | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 officials | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 officials | det |
| 22 | disgraced | disgrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 officials | amod |
| 23 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gratitude | nmod |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 procuring | mark |
| 25 | procuring | procure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 earn | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 release | nmod:poss |
| 27 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 procuring | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pardon | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon | future | Emperor | me | undoubtedly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | present | Emperor | the story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | earn | shall | I | the undying gratitude of all disgraced officials | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme | ||||
| 4 | disgrace | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | procure | gerund | I not said here | officials's release | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent release=Theme |
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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