Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 50
“That is very sad,” replied the Thief, “for indeed it will be difficult for me to prove the truth of my story.
Who acts: That, Thief · What happens: be, reply, prove · To what, where: truth · 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 (That, 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 sad | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sad | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sad | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sad | advmod |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sad | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sad | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Thief | det |
| 10 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 difficult | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 difficult | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 indeed | case |
| 14 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 18 difficult | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 difficult | expl |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 difficult | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 difficult | cop |
| 18 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 prove | mark |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 prove | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 prove | mark |
| 22 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 difficult | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 truth | det |
| 24 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prove | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 story | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 story | nmod:poss |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 truth | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Thief | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | prove in a quote | to-infinitive | the Thief = thief | the truth of my story | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme |
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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