Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 30
“Very good, brother,” replied the Stranger, “I am the very man to help you, for you must know I am a thief by profession, and I am always on the look-out for what fortune may bring me.
Who acts: good brother, you, fortune · What happens: reply, be, help, know, bring · To what, where: Stranger, man, you, thief, look out, good brother · 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 (good brother, you, fortune), 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 | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Stranger | det |
| 10 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 man | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 man | advmod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 help | mark |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 man | acl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 know | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 know | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 know | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 know | aux |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 help | conj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 thief | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 thief | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 thief | det |
| 29 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 know | ccomp |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 profession | case |
| 31 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thief | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 out | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 out | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 out | nsubj |
| 35 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 out | cop |
| 36 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 41 out | advmod |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 out | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 out | det |
| 39 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 out | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 look | punct |
| 41 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 what | case |
| 43 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 out | nmod |
| 44 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 bring | nsubj |
| 45 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 bring | aux |
| 46 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 what | acl:relcl |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 bring | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | good brother | the Stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | good brother = brother | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | good brother not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | must | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | good brother = brother | a thief | by profession | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | good brother = brother | the look out | what nmod; always property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | bring in a quote | may | fortune | good brother = brother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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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