Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 59
The girl accepted these conditions, and handed over to the Thief a heavy bag of gold.
Who acts: girl · What happens: accept, hand over · To what, where: conditions, heavy bag, Thief
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 (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 conditions | det |
| 5 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 accepted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 handed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 handed | cc |
| 8 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 accepted | conj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 handed | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Thief | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Thief | det |
| 12 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 handed | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bag | det |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bag | amod |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 handed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bag | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the girl | this conditions | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hand over | participle | the girl not said here | a heavy bag of gold | the Thief | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to thief=Destination |
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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