Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 41
“I,” replied the elder brother, “am the brother of the young man who was here the other day, and to whom you gave so much gold; and, following his advice, I have now come to ask you for a similar benefit for myself.”
Who acts: I, young man, you · What happens: reply, be, give, follow, come, ask · To what, where: elder brother, brother, much gold, advice, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, young man, you), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 7 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brother | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 brother | punct |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brother | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brother | det |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brother | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 here | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 here | cop |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 here | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gave | cc |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 whom | case |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 gave | obl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 gave | nsubj |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 much | advmod |
| 31 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 gold | amod |
| 32 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gave | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 come | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 come | cc |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 and | punct |
| 36 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 and | acl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 advice | nmod:poss |
| 38 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 following | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 and | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 come | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 come | aux |
| 42 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 come | advmod |
| 43 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 ask | mark |
| 45 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 come | advcl |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 ask | iobj |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 benefit | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 benefit | det |
| 49 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 benefit | amod |
| 50 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 ask | obl |
| 51 | for | for | ADP | _ | 52 myself | case |
| 52 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 45 ask | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | I | the elder brother and the brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | I not said here | the brother | of the young man | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the young man | day | here property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | past | you | much gold | whom obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to whom=Recipient | |||
| 5 | follow in a quote | gerund | Lion's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come in a quote | present · perfect | I | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | for a similar benefit; for myself | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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