Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 12
If the council agreed that he was in the wrong, he should be sent adrift on a log of wood on the great river that flowed past the palace; but if the Queen should be found to be in the wrong, she should suffer this fate.
Who acts: council, great river, Queen · What happens: agree, be, send, flow, find, suffer · To what, where: council, log, Queen, fate · 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 (council, great river, Queen), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 agreed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 council | det |
| 3 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 suffer | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wrong | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wrong | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wrong | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wrong | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wrong | det |
| 10 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 agreed | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sent | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sent | aux:pass |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 agreed | conj |
| 16 | adrift | adrift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sent | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 log | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 log | det |
| 19 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 log | nmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 river | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 river | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 river | amod |
| 25 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 flowed | nsubj |
| 27 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 river | acl:relcl |
| 28 | past | past | ADP | _ | 30 palace | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 palace | det |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flowed | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 suffer | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 suffer | cc |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 found | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Queen | det |
| 35 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 found | nsubj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 found | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 found | aux:pass |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 suffer | advcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 wrong | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 wrong | cop |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 wrong | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 wrong | det |
| 43 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 found | xcomp |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 found | punct |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 suffer | nsubj |
| 46 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 suffer | aux |
| 47 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 48 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 fate | det |
| 49 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 suffer | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen | past | the council | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | council | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | should · passive | council | a log of wood | on the great river; adrift property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | flow | past | the great river | past the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find a condition, not said to happen | should · passive | the Queen | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | suffer | should | Queen | this fate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus |
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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