Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 37

“Now,” said he to Rin-dzin, “I have a plan to propose to you.

Who acts: thief · What happens: say, have, propose · To what, where: Rin dzin, plan · 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 (thief), 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 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 dzin	case
8	Rin	Rin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dzin	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Rin	punct
10	dzin	dzin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 “	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 “	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 plan	det
16	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 propose	mark
18	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 plan	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 propose	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	thief		Rin dzin	now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dzin=Recipient
2	have in a quote	present	thief	a plan			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
3	propose in a quote	to-infinitive	thief not said here	a plan not said here	Rin dzin = dzin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 37