Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 39
As soon as you are ready I will go to the young lady of the house and inform her that I am her brother, who has returned home after many years’ wandering.
Who acts: you, I, brother, many years · What happens: be, go, inform, return, ', wonder · To what, where: body, 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 (you, I, brother, many years), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 go | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 ready | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 lady | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lady | amod |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lady | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 inform | cc |
| 18 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 inform | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 brother | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 brother | cop |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inform | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 returned | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 returned | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 returned | aux |
| 28 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 brother | conj |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 returned | advmod |
| 30 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 33 ’ | mark |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 years | amod |
| 32 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 ’ | nsubj |
| 33 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 returned | advcl |
| 34 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 ’ | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | future | I | to the young lady of the house; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lady=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | inform speech: other | infinitive | I not said here | body | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | body's brother | body nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | return | present · perfect | body's brother | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ' | present | many years | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | many years not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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