Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 58
I will therefore make over to you the house and the whole of the landed property, and all I ask from you as my share of the estate is a bag of gold, as big as I can carry with me.”
Who acts: I, all, my · What happens: make over, land, ask, be, carry, share · To what, where: house, you, bag, estate
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 (I, all, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 make | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 whole | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 whole | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 property | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 property | det |
| 15 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 property | amod |
| 16 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 whole | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bag | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bag | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 bag | nsubj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ask | nsubj |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 all | acl:relcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 ask | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 share | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 share | nmod:poss |
| 26 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 estate | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 estate | det |
| 29 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 share | nmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 bag | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bag | det |
| 32 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gold | case |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bag | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 big | punct |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | _ | 37 big | advmod |
| 37 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | conj |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 carry | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 carry | nsubj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 carry | aux |
| 41 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 big | advcl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 carry | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make over | future | I | the house | you | therefore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | land | participle | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | I | from you; as my share of the estate | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | all | a bag | of gold | tree rules | |||
| 5 | carry | can | I | with me | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | share | my | the estate | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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