Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 7
“Oh, King!” replied the supposed Lama, “I, you must know, am a great recluse, and as the result of many years of solitary meditation, I have become proficient in all the magic arts.
Who acts: King · What happens: reply, suppose, know, become, result · To what, where: supposed Lama, many years · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lama | det |
| 9 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Lama | amod |
| 10 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 I | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Lama | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 am | punct |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 recluse | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 recluse | amod |
| 22 | recluse | recluse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 am | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 become | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 become | cc |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 result | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 result | det |
| 27 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 become | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 years | case |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 years | amod |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 result | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 meditation | case |
| 32 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 meditation | amod |
| 33 | meditation | meditation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 years | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 result | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 become | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 become | aux |
| 37 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | conj |
| 38 | proficient | proficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 become | xcomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 arts | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 arts | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 arts | det |
| 42 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 arts | amod |
| 43 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 proficient | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | King | the supposed Lama | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | suppose | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | know in a quote | must | King | you nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | become in a quote | present · perfect | King | as the result of many years of solitary meditation; proficient property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | result in a quote | many years of solitary meditation | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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