Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 100
On hearing this the King was very much incensed, and he ordered one of his servants to bring in a big hammer to smash the shell to fragments, saying that he would not be browbeaten by a wretched little object like a shell.
Who acts: King, one, wretched little object · What happens: hear, incense, order, bring, smash, say · To what, where: this, one, big hammer, shell, fragments · 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: who acts (King, one, wretched little object), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 incensed | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 incensed | aux:pass |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 incensed | advmod |
| 9 | incensed | incense | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ordered | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ordered | nsubj |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 incensed | parataxis |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 ordered | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 servants | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 servants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bring | mark |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ordered | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hammer | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hammer | det |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hammer | amod |
| 23 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 smash | mark |
| 25 | smash | smash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bring | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shell | det |
| 27 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 smash | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 fragments | case |
| 29 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 smash | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saying | punct |
| 31 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 smash | advcl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 browbeaten | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 browbeaten | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 browbeaten | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 browbeaten | advmod |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 browbeaten | aux:pass |
| 37 | browbeaten | browbeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 saying | ccomp |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 object | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 object | det |
| 40 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 object | amod |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 object | amod |
| 42 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 browbeaten | obl |
| 43 | like | like | ADP | _ | 45 shell | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 shell | det |
| 45 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 object | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 incensed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | the King obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | incense | past · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 3 | order | past | King | one of King's servants | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | one of King's servants not said here | a big hammer | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | smash | to-infinitive | one of King's servants not said here | the shell | fragments | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shell=Theme to fragment=Destination | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | one of King's servants not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not browbeat | would · passive | a wretched little object like a shell | shell | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=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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