Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 32
I have three daughters living in my kingdom in the skies, and I will give you as wife any one of them whom you desire.
Who acts: I, three daughters, you · What happens: have, live, give, desire · To what, where: three daughters, kingdom, one, you
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, three daughters, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 daughters | nummod |
| 4 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 daughters | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 kingdom | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 living | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 skies | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skies | det |
| 11 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 living | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obl |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 desire | obj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 desire | nsubj |
| 26 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | three daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | three daughters not said here | my kingdom | in the skies | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location | |||
| 3 | give | future | I | any one of daughters | you | as wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient one=Theme | ||
| 4 | desire | present | you | any one of daughters | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whom=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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