Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 75
The Emperor, seeing that this was a reasonable request, agreed to act as the Thieves had suggested.
Who acts: Emperor, this · What happens: see, be, agree, act, suggest · To what, where: reasonable request, Thieves, Emperor
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, this), 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 | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Emperor | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 request | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 request | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 request | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 request | det |
| 9 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 request | amod |
| 10 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 agreed | punct |
| 12 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 request | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 act | mark |
| 14 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 agreed | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 suggested | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Thieves | det |
| 17 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 suggested | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 suggested | aux |
| 19 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 act | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Emperor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Emperor not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | a reasonable request | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | a reasonable request not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | act not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | suggest speech: suggest | past · perfect · passive | the Thieves | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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