Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 53
“Are you there, father,” said the Thief, as he entered the darkened room; and Rin-dzin, in a sepulchral voice replied, “Ah.”
Who acts: you, father · What happens: be, say, enter, darken, reply · To what, where: darkened room, sepulchral voice · 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, father), 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 | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 there | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 father | punct |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 father | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 father | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Thief | det |
| 11 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 entered | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 entered | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 entered | nsubj |
| 15 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 17 | darkened | darken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 room | amod |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entered | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 dzin | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dzin | cc |
| 21 | Rin | Rin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 dzin | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Rin | punct |
| 23 | dzin | dzin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 voice | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 voice | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 voice | det |
| 27 | sepulchral | sepulchral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 voice | amod |
| 28 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dzin | parataxis |
| 29 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 voice | acl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ah | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ah | punct |
| 32 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 23 dzin | discourse |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ah | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 dzin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father | the Thief nsubj; Rin dzin in a sepulchral voice parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | father | the darkened room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 4 | darken | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | participle | a sepulchral voice not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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