Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 51
“Who are you three men?” asked the Emperor, “and what do you want from me?”
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: be, ask, want · To what, where: 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Who | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Who | nsubj |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 men | nummod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Who | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Emperor | det |
| 11 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 want | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 want | obj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 want | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 want | nsubj |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 want | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Emperor = emperor | three men nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Emperor | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present · do-support | the Emperor = emperor | from me; what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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