Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 52
“May it please Your Majesty,” replied the first Thief, “I have ventured to bring a small gift for you.”
Who acts: audience, first Thief · What happens: please, reply, venture, bring · To what, where: Majesty, small gift · 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 (audience, first Thief), 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 | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 please | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 please | nsubj |
| 4 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 please | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 please | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Thief | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 Thief | amod |
| 12 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ventured | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ventured | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ventured | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ventured | aux |
| 17 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 replied | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bring | mark |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ventured | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 gift | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gift | amod |
| 22 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please in a quote | may | audience | Your Majesty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the first Thief | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | venture in a quote | present · perfect | the first Thief = thief | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | the first Thief = thief not said here | a small gift | for you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=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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