Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 108
As soon as he was seated upon his throne he sent for the young lady whom he had rescued from the Ogre’s cave, and, having married her, they lived happily for many years.
Who acts: magician, having, courtiers · What happens: seat, send, rescue, have, marry, live · To what, where: magician, young lady, cave, Ogre
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 (magician, having, courtiers), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 sent | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 seated | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seated | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | aux:pass |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 throne | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 throne | nmod:poss |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sent | nsubj |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 lady | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lady | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lady | amod |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rescued | aux |
| 19 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lady | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 cave | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Ogre | det |
| 22 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 cave | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Ogre | case |
| 24 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rescued | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 married | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 married | cc |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 having | punct |
| 28 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 married | csubj |
| 29 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 married | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lived | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 lived | nsubj |
| 33 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | conj |
| 34 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 33 lived | advmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 years | case |
| 36 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 years | amod |
| 37 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 lived | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | magician | upon magician's throne | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | send | past | magician | for the young lady; soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rescue | past · perfect · passive | the young lady | the Ogre's cave | magician nsubj:pass | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from cave=Source | |||
| 4 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | marry | past | having | Ogre | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 6 | live | past | courtiers = courtier | year | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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