Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 16
The old Lama, who never refused a reasonable request, at once proceeded to do as he was asked, and, rising from his seat, he followed the Servant into the next room.
Who acts: old Lama, Lama · What happens: not refuse, proceed, do, ask, rise, follow · To what, where: reasonable request, Lama, seat, Servant, next room
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Lama, Lama), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lama | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lama | amod |
| 3 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 refused | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 refused | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 refused | advmod |
| 7 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 request | det |
| 9 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 request | amod |
| 10 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refused | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 proceeded | punct |
| 12 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 14 proceeded | mark |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 proceeded | advmod |
| 14 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 refused | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 proceeded | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 asked | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | aux:pass |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 do | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 followed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 followed | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rising | punct |
| 24 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 followed | advcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 seat | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 seat | nmod:poss |
| 27 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rising | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rising | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 followed | nsubj |
| 30 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 proceeded | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Servant | det |
| 32 | Servant | Servant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 followed | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 room | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 room | det |
| 35 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 room | amod |
| 36 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 followed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | past | the old Lama | a reasonable request | who nsubj | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | |||
| 2 | proceed | past | once property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | Lama | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | rise | gerund | Lama not said here | Lama's seat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | follow | past | Lama | the Servant | the next room | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent servant=Theme into room=Trajectory |
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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