Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 24
He told the story to his parents, who were very angry, and came to complain to the Lama of the conduct of his Servant.
Who acts: Lama, parents · What happens: tell, be, come, complain, conduct · To what, where: story, parents, Lama, Servant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lama, parents), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 parents | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 angry | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 angry | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 angry | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 angry | advmod |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 parents | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 complain | mark |
| 17 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 came | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Lama | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lama | det |
| 20 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 complain | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 conduct | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 conduct | det |
| 23 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 complain | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Servant | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Servant | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 conduct | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Lama | the story | Lama's parents | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | Lama's parents | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Lama not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | complain speech: other | to-infinitive | Lama not said here | the Lama | of the conduct of Lama's Servant | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lama=Recipient | |||
| 5 | conduct | Lama's Servant | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=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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