Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 8
This, however, the Lama always sternly refused to do, and forbade his Servant on any account to destroy the life of a living being.
Who acts: This · What happens: refuse, not do, forbid, destroy · To what, where: Servant, account, life
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 (This), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 This | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 refused | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lama | det |
| 6 | Lama | lama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 refused | nsubj |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 refused | advmod |
| 8 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 9 refused | advmod |
| 9 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 refused | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forbade | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forbade | cc |
| 14 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 refused | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Servant | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forbade | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 account | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 account | det |
| 19 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forbade | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 destroy | mark |
| 21 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 forbade | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 life | det |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 destroy | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 living | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 living | det |
| 26 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 life | nmod |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 destroy | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | This | the Lama nsubj; always, however, sternly property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | This not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | forbid | past | This not said here | Lama's Servant | any account | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer servant=Theme | |||
| 4 | destroy | to-infinitive | This not said here | the life of a living | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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