Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 56
And so saying he took the soles of the Prime Minister’s boots out of his wallet and laid them on the steps of the throne.
Who acts: gift · What happens: say, take, lay, step · To what, where: soles, wallet, throne · 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 (gift), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 saying | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 saying | advmod |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soles | det |
| 7 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 boots | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Minister | det |
| 10 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 11 Minister | compound |
| 11 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 boots | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Minister | case |
| 13 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 soles | nmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 wallet | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wallet | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laid | cc |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laid | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 steps | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 steps | det |
| 23 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 laid | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 throne | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 throne | det |
| 26 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 steps | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | take | past | gift | the soles of the Prime Minister's boots | gift's wallet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sole=Theme out wallet=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | lay | past | gift not said here | soles = sole | on the steps of the throne | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on step=Destination | |||
| 4 | step | the throne | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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