Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 74
What a pity it is he did not drop them both.”
Who acts: thief · What happens: not be
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 (thief), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 drop | obl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pity | det |
| 3 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 drop | cop |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drop | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drop | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 drop | advmod |
| 9 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drop | obj |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 them | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drop | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present · do-support | thief | What a pity pity obl; sword obj; drop property | tree rules |
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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