Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 3
So the King of the Mice decided that he would make a petition to the King of the country, to lend the Mice what grain they required on condition that they repaid the whole amount the following year.
Who acts: King, Mice · What happens: decide, make, lend, require, repay, follow · To what, where: petition, grain, Mice, condition, whole amount
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Mice), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 decided | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Mice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mice | det |
| 6 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 King | nmod |
| 7 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 decided | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 petition | det |
| 13 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 petition | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 King | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lend | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lend | mark |
| 22 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Mice | det |
| 24 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lend | obj |
| 25 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 26 grain | det |
| 26 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lend | obj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 required | nsubj |
| 28 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 grain | acl:relcl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 condition | case |
| 30 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 required | obl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 repaid | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 repaid | nsubj |
| 33 | repaid | repay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 required | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 amount | det |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 amount | amod |
| 36 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 repaid | obj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 year | det |
| 38 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 year | amod |
| 39 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 repaid | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the King of the Mice | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | would | King | a petition | to the King of the country | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petition=Product | |||
| 3 | lend | to-infinitive | what grain | the Mice | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient grain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | require | past | Mice = mouse | what grain not said here | condition | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grain=Precondition | |||
| 5 | repay | past | Mice = mouse | the whole amount | year | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent amount=Recipient | |||
| 6 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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