Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 48
He, however, is unable to obtain any power over the body of a human being unless that being directly disobeys his orders.
Who acts: person, that · What happens: be, obtain, order · To what, where: power, body
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 unable | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 He | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 unable | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unable | cop |
| 6 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 obtain | mark |
| 8 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 unable | xcomp |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 power | det |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obtain | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obtain | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 human | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 human | det |
| 16 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 body | acl |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 human | advcl |
| 18 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 22 disobeys | mark |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 disobeys | nsubj |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 disobeys | cop |
| 21 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 22 disobeys | advmod |
| 22 | disobeys | disobey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 obtain | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 orders | nmod:poss |
| 24 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 disobeys | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | person | however, unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | obtain | to-infinitive | person not said here | any power | the body | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | gerund | that | person's orders obj; directly, disobey property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | order | person | nom order «communication 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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