Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 34
The servants of the house had told him that the owner had died the day before, and was now awaiting burial in his own room.
Who acts: owner · What happens: tell, die, await · To what, where: servants, thief, burial, own room · 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 (owner), 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 | 2 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 servants | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 died | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 owner | det |
| 11 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 died | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 died | aux |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 told | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 died | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 died | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 awaiting | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 awaiting | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 awaiting | aux |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 awaiting | advmod |
| 21 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 told | advcl |
| 22 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 awaiting | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 room | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 room | amod |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 awaiting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the servants of the house | thief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | the owner | day | before property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | await | past · progressive | burial | thief's own room | now | tree rules |
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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