Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 4

He was an amusing fellow and very fond of his joke, but was quite unreliable and incapable of performing any regular work.

Who acts: Lama · What happens: be, perform, joke · To what, where: amusing fellow, regular work

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 (Lama), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fellow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fellow	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fellow	det
4	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellow	amod
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fond	cc
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 fond	advmod
8	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellow	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 joke	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 joke	nmod:poss
11	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fond	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unreliable	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 unreliable	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 unreliable	cop
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 unreliable	advmod
16	unreliable	unreliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellow	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 incapable	cc
18	incapable	incapable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 unreliable	conj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 performing	mark
20	performing	perform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 incapable	advcl
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 work	det
22	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 work	amod
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 performing	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lama	a amusing fellow		tree rules
2	be		Lama not said here		of Lama's joke	tree rules
3	is	past			unreliable property	tree rules
4	be					tree rules
5	perform	gerund		any regular work		vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
6	joke		Lama			nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 4

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 4