Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 59
The Prime Minister was delighted at being reinstated in the royal favour, and expressed his gratitude to the Thief for his services in the matter.
Who acts: Prime Minister, Emperor · What happens: be, reinstate, express, service · To what, where: royal favour, gratitude, Thief, matter
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 (Prime Minister, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minister | det |
| 2 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 3 Minister | compound |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 reinstated | mark |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 reinstated | aux:pass |
| 8 | reinstated | reinstate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 favour | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 favour | det |
| 11 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 favour | amod |
| 12 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reinstated | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 expressed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 expressed | cc |
| 15 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 17 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expressed | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Thief | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Thief | det |
| 20 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expressed | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 services | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 services | nmod:poss |
| 23 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Thief | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 matter | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 matter | det |
| 26 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 services | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prime Minister | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reinstate | gerund · passive | the Prime Minister not said here | the royal favour | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | express | past | the Prime Minister not said here | Emperor's gratitude | the Thief for Emperor's services in the matter | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme to thief=Recipient | |||
| 4 | service | Emperor | the matter | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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