Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 62
“Oh!” said she, “I gave him a big bag of gold last night, and he at once started off with it as fast as he could.”
Who acts: girl, dzin · What happens: say, give, start off · To what, where: big bag, dzin · 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 (girl, dzin), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bag | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bag | amod |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bag | nmod |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 night | amod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 started | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 started | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 started | nsubj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 started | obl |
| 24 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 started | compound:prt |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 started | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 fast | advmod |
| 29 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 started | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 could | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 could | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fast | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | girl | a big bag of gold | dzin | night | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bag=Theme | ||
| 3 | start off in a quote | past | dzin | with gold; fast property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with it=Subeventuality |
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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