Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 1
Once upon a time, in the country of Room, there lived a King called Bacha, who, having married a young Princess from a neighbouring kingdom, lived with her for a short time very happily.
What happens: live, call, marry, neighbour · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 country | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Room | case |
| 10 | Room | Room | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 country | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 lived | expl |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 King | acl |
| 17 | Bacha | Bacha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 married | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 married | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 married | punct |
| 21 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 married | aux |
| 22 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 King | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Princess | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Princess | amod |
| 25 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 married | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 kingdom | det |
| 28 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 kingdom | amod |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Princess | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lived | punct |
| 31 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lived | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 lived | obl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 time | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 36 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 time | amod |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lived | obl |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 happily | advmod |
| 39 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 31 lived | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a King | there | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a King not said here | Bacha xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | marry | gerund · perfect · passive | a King | a young Princess obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | live | past | time | with Princess; happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
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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