Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 10
The Queen again contradicted him, and a heated argument ensued, in which neither convinced the other.
Who acts: Queen, heated argument · What happens: contradict, ensue, convince · To what, where: King, other
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: who acts (Queen, heated argument), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 contradicted | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 contradicted | advmod |
| 4 | contradicted | contradict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 contradicted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ensued | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ensued | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 argument | det |
| 9 | heated | heated | ADJ | _ | 10 argument | amod |
| 10 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ensued | nsubj |
| 11 | ensued | ensue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 contradicted | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 convinced | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 convinced | obl |
| 15 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 16 convinced | advmod |
| 16 | convinced | convince | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ensued | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 convinced | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contradicted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contradict | past | the Queen | King | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ensue | past | a heated argument | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | convince | past | a heated argument not said here | the other | which obl; neither property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer |
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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