Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 60
When the third Thief was asked what he had to say he replied:
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: ask, have, say, reply · To what, where: third Thief · 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 asked | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Thief | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Thief | amod |
| 4 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | aux:pass |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 asked | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | ccomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | the third Thief | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Emperor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Emperor | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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