Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 38
“Very well,” said the Drake, “I will arrange the matter accordingly, and I will meet you here to-morrow with my middle daughter.
Who acts: Drake · What happens: say, arrange, meet · To what, where: matter, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Drake), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Drake | det |
| 8 | Drake | Drake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrange | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrange | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 arrange | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 arrange | aux |
| 13 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 matter | det |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrange | obj |
| 16 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 13 arrange | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 meet | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 meet | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 meet | aux |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | obj |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 meet | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 morrow | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 to | punct |
| 26 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meet | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 daughter | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 29 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 daughter | amod |
| 30 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meet | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Drake | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arrange in a quote | future | the Drake = drake | the matter | accordingly property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Product | |||
| 3 | meet in a quote | future | the Drake = drake | you | here | to morrow; with my middle daughter | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Theme with daughter=Instrument |
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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