Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 22

The unsuspecting old Lama agreed to this, and for several days the Servant was able to eat his fill of excellent mutton.

Who acts: unsuspecting old Lama, Servant · What happens: agree, be, eat · To what, where: fill

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 (unsuspecting old Lama, Servant), 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	4 Lama	det
2	unsuspecting	unsuspecting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Lama	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Lama	amod
4	Lama	Lama	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 agreed	nsubj
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 agreed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 able	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 able	cc
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 able	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Servant	det
14	Servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 able	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 able	cop
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 agreed	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	xcomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fill	nmod:poss
20	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 mutton	case
22	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mutton	amod
23	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fill	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the unsuspecting old Lama			to this	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Servant		day	able property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	the Servant not said here	Lama's fill of excellent mutton			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient

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 Lama’s Servant., sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 22