Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 11
At length, the King said that he could not stand this argument any longer, but would submit the question for decision to his council on the following day.
Who acts: King · What happens: say, not stand, submit, follow · To what, where: length, argument, question, council · 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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 stand | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stand | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 stand | advmod |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 argument | det |
| 13 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stand | obj |
| 14 | any | any | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 stand | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 submit | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 submit | cc |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 submit | aux |
| 19 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 question | det |
| 21 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 submit | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 decision | case |
| 23 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 submit | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 council | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 council | nmod:poss |
| 26 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 submit | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 29 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 day | amod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 submit | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | length | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not stand | could | King | this argument | long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer argument=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | submit | would | the King not said here | the question | King's council | day | for decision | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Theme to council=Recipient | |
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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