Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 96
So the Prince took his seat on the Ogre’s chair and the Ogre kneeling on the ground before him proceeded to kow-tow three times in the orthodox manner.
Who acts: Prince, chair, Ogre · What happens: take, kneel, proceed · To what, where: seat, chair, ground, orthodox manner
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 (Prince, chair, Ogre), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 seat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 chair | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ogre | det |
| 9 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 chair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Ogre | case |
| 11 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Ogre | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ogre | det |
| 14 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 chair | conj |
| 15 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 chair | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kneeling | obl |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 proceeded | mark |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 proceeded | nsubj |
| 21 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 tow | case |
| 23 | kow | kow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tow | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 kow | punct |
| 25 | tow | tow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 proceeded | obl |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 times | nummod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 proceeded | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 manner | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 manner | det |
| 30 | orthodox | orthodox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 manner | compound |
| 31 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 proceeded | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Prince | Ogre's seat | the Ogre's chair and the Ogre | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seat=Theme on chair=Destination | |||
| 2 | kneel | gerund | the Ogre's chair and the Ogre not said here | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | Ogre | the orthodox manner | time | to kow tow | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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