Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 44
Seating himself upon his throne, he summoned his three daughters before him and informed them of what had occurred; and he gave orders to his middle daughter to prepare herself forthwith to go and marry a mortal.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: seat, summon, inform, occur, give, prepare · To what, where: Boy, three daughters, daughters, orders, middle daughter, condition
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 (Boy), 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 | Seating | seat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 summoned | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Seating | obj |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 throne | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 throne | nmod:poss |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seating | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seating | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 summoned | nsubj |
| 8 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 daughters | nummod |
| 11 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 summoned | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 summoned | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 informed | cc |
| 15 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 summoned | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 informed | iobj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 informed | obl |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 occurred | aux |
| 20 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 summoned | conj |
| 25 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gave | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 daughter | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 daughter | amod |
| 29 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 prepare | mark |
| 31 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gave | advcl |
| 32 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 prepare | obj |
| 33 | forthwith | forthwith | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 prepare | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 forthwith | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 marry | cc |
| 37 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 go | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 mortal | det |
| 39 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 marry | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | gerund | Boy not said here | Boy | upon Boy's throne | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | |||
| 2 | summon | past | Boy | Boy's three daughters | before fairy | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | |||
| 3 | inform speech: other | past | Boy not said here | daughters = daughter | what obl | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of what=Topic | |||
| 4 | occur | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | give | past | Boy | orders | Boy's middle daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to daughter=Recipient | |||
| 6 | prepare | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | condition | forthwith property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | marry | infinitive | Boy not said here | a mortal | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortal=Patient |
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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