Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 2

Now the elder of these brothers was a smart, clever man, but was of a very selfish, cold-hearted disposition; and the younger brother was simple and kind, but rather dull.

Who acts: elder, younger brother · What happens: be · To what, where: smart clever man

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder, younger brother), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 elder	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elder	det
3	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 brothers	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 elder	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
9	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smart	punct
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 disposition	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 disposition	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 disposition	cop
16	of	of	ADP	_	24 disposition	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 disposition	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 selfish	advmod
19	selfish	selfish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 disposition	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 selfish	punct
21	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hearted	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 cold	punct
23	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 disposition	amod
24	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 simple	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 simple	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 brother	det
28	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 brother	amod
29	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 simple	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 simple	cop
31	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 kind	cc
33	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 simple	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dull	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 dull	cc
36	rather	rather	ADV	_	37 dull	advmod
37	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 simple	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the elder of this brothers	a smart clever man but a selfish hearted disposition		tree rules
2	is	past	the elder of this brothers not said here		of a selfish hearted disposition	tree rules
3	is	past	the younger brother		simple property	tree rules
4	be		the younger brother not said here			tree rules
5	be		the younger brother not said here			tree rules

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 2

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 2