Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 7

This mode of life, however, was not at all pleasing to the Servant, Rin-dzin, who had a healthy appetite and greatly missed his daily dish of meat, and he was constantly trying to persuade the Lama to allow him to kill a sheep or a goat in order that he might have a satisfactory meal.

Who acts: mode, Rin dzin, Lama · What happens: please, have, miss, try, persuade, allow · To what, where: healthy appetite, daily dish, Lama, sheep, order, satisfactory meal

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 (mode, Rin dzin, Lama), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 mode	det
2	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pleasing	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 life	case
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mode	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mode	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	12 pleasing	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pleasing	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 all	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 pleasing	nsubj
12	pleasing	please	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Servant	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Servant	det
15	Servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pleasing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dzin	punct
17	Rin	Rin	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dzin	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Rin	punct
19	dzin	dzin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pleasing	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dzin	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 appetite	det
24	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 appetite	amod
25	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 missed	cc
27	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	28 missed	advmod
28	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dish	nmod:poss
30	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dish	amod
31	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 missed	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 meat	case
33	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dish	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 trying	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 trying	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 trying	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 trying	aux
38	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	39 trying	advmod
39	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 pleasing	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 persuade	mark
41	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 trying	xcomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Lama	det
43	Lama	lama	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 persuade	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 allow	mark
45	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 persuade	advcl
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 allow	iobj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 kill	mark
48	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 allow	xcomp
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 sheep	det
50	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 kill	obj
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 goat	cc
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 goat	det
53	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sheep	conj
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 order	case
55	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 kill	obl
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 have	mark
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 have	nsubj
58	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 have	aux
59	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 kill	advcl
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 meal	det
61	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 meal	amod
62	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 have	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pleasing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	please	past · progressive	this mode of life				to the Servant; Rin dzin parataxis; however property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	Rin dzin	a healthy appetite				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient
3	miss	past	Rin dzin not said here	Lama's daily dish of meat			greatly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dish=Stimulus
4	try	past · progressive	Lama				constantly property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	persuade not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lama not said here	the Lama				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lama=Patient
6	allow	to-infinitive	Lama not said here		Lama			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lama not said here	a sheep or a goat		order		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
8	have	might	Lama	a satisfactory meal				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 7

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 7