Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 59
“I have sold everything in the house, and have now no money to buy any food.
Who acts: wife · What happens: sell, have, buy · To what, where: everything, house, money, food
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 (wife), 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 | _ | 4 sold | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sold | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sold | aux |
| 4 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 sold | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sold | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sold | conj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 have | advmod |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 money | det |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 buy | mark |
| 16 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 money | acl |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 food | det |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buy | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell in a quote | present · perfect | wife | everything | the house | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | wife not said here | no money | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||
| 3 | buy in a quote | to-infinitive | wife not said here | any food | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
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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