Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 63
When Rin-dzin heard this he was very angry indeed at the Thief’s treachery, and was determined to follow and punish him.
Who acts: Rin dzin, dzin · What happens: hear, be, follow, punish · To what, where: this, treachery, 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 (Rin dzin, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Rin | Rin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dzin | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rin | punct |
| 4 | dzin | dzin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 angry | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 angry | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 angry | advmod |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 angry | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 treachery | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Thief | det |
| 14 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 treachery | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Thief | case |
| 16 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 angry | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 determined | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 determined | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 determined | cop |
| 20 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 follow | mark |
| 22 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 determined | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 punish | cc |
| 24 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 follow | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 punish | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Rin dzin | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | dzin | the Thief's treachery | angry, indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | Rin dzin not said here | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | Rin dzin not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | punish | infinitive | Rin dzin not said here | dzin | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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