Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 25

The old Lama was very much incensed at the treachery and wickedness of his attendant, and dismissed him on the spot, telling him to go away and never come back again.

What happens: incense, dismiss, tell, go away, not come back · To what, where: old Lama, treachery, Lama, spot · 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: 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 incensed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 incensed	aux:pass
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 incensed	advmod
7	incensed	incense	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 treachery	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 treachery	det
10	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 incensed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wickedness	cc
12	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 treachery	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 attendant	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 attendant	nmod:poss
15	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wickedness	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dismissed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dismissed	cc
18	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 incensed	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dismissed	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 spot	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 spot	det
22	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dismissed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 telling	punct
24	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 dismissed	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 telling	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 telling	xcomp
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 go	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 come	advmod
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
33	again	again	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 incensed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	incense	past · passive	the old Lama		the treachery and wickedness of Lama's attendant			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	dismiss	past	Lama		the spot			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund		Lama				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not come back	infinitive				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 25

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 25