Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 88
I consider, therefore, that he has been treated in a shameful and unjustifiable manner, and so I have brought him here to plead his cause in person and to claim redress.”
Who acts: I, monster · What happens: consider, treat, bring, plead, claim, cause · To what, where: monster, shameful manner, cause, redress
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, monster), 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 consider | nsubj |
| 2 | consider | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 consider | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 treated | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 treated | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 treated | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 treated | aux:pass |
| 10 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 consider | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 manner | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 manner | det |
| 13 | shameful | shameful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 manner | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 unjustifiable | cc |
| 15 | unjustifiable | unjustifiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shameful | conj |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 treated | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 brought | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 consider | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obj |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 brought | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 plead | mark |
| 26 | plead | plead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 brought | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 cause | nmod:poss |
| 28 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 plead | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 person | case |
| 30 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 plead | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 claim | cc |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 claim | mark |
| 33 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 plead | conj |
| 34 | redress | redress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 claim | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consider | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 consider | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | present | I | therefore property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | treat | present · perfect · passive | monster | a shameful manner | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bring | present · perfect | I | monster | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 4 | plead speech: request | to-infinitive | I not said here | monster's cause | in person | tree rules | |||
| 5 | claim speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | redress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent redress=Topic | ||||
| 6 | cause | monster | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=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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