Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 109
And the Queen, his mother, soon after returned to King Bacha, and having agreed with him never more to argue on trivial matters, they had no more disputes or quarrels, and long reigned together over a contented and prosperous kingdom.
Who acts: Queen, courtiers · What happens: return, agree, argue, have, reign, content · To what, where: King, more, more disputes, contented prosperous kingdom
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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 returned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 returned | advmod |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 returned | mark |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 13 | Bacha | Bacha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 agreed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 agreed | cc |
| 16 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 agreed | aux |
| 17 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 returned | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 agreed | obl |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 agreed | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 argue | mark |
| 23 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 more | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 matters | case |
| 25 | trivial | trivial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 matters | amod |
| 26 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 argue | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 agreed | conj |
| 30 | no | no | ADV | _ | 32 disputes | advmod |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 disputes | amod |
| 32 | disputes | dispute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 had | obj |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 quarrels | cc |
| 34 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 disputes | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 reigned | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 reigned | cc |
| 37 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 reigned | advmod |
| 38 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 disputes | acl |
| 39 | together | together | ADV | _ | 38 reigned | advmod |
| 40 | over | over | ADP | _ | 45 kingdom | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 kingdom | det |
| 42 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 kingdom | amod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 prosperous | cc |
| 44 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 kingdom | amod |
| 45 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reigned | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the Queen | King | soon property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | gerund · perfect | the Queen not said here | more | with magician | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent more=Topic | |||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | on trivial matters | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on matter=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have | past | courtiers = courtier | more disputes or quarrels | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Patient | ||||
| 5 | reign | participle | more disputes or quarrels not said here | a contented prosperous kingdom | long, together property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | content | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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