Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 2
But it happened that both the King and Queen were of a very argumentative turn of mind, and were constantly disputing with one another about all sorts of trifles, and as neither would ever give way to the other, it generally ended in their quarrelling.
Who acts: it, King, neither, way · What happens: happen, be, dispute, give, end, sort · To what, where: way, other, quarrelling, trifles
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 (it, King, neither, way), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 happened | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 turn | mark |
| 5 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 King | cc:preconj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Queen | cc |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turn | cop |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 turn | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 turn | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 argumentative | advmod |
| 14 | argumentative | argumentative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 turn | amod |
| 15 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 disputing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 disputing | cc |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 disputing | aux |
| 21 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 22 disputing | advmod |
| 22 | disputing | dispute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 disputing | obl |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 one | fixed |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 sorts | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 sorts | det |
| 28 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 trifles | case |
| 30 | trifles | trifle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sorts | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 give | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 give | cc |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 give | mark |
| 34 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 give | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 give | aux |
| 36 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 37 give | advmod |
| 37 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 happened | conj |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 give | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 other | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 other | det |
| 41 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 give | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ended | punct |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 ended | nsubj |
| 44 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 45 ended | advmod |
| 45 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 give | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 quarrelling | case |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 quarrelling | nmod:poss |
| 48 | quarrelling | quarrelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 ended | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the King and Queen | of a argumentative turn; of mind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dispute | past · progressive | with one about all sorts of trifles; constantly property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | would | neither | way | the other | ever | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to other=Recipient | ||
| 5 | end | past | way | trifles's quarrelling | generally property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | sort | trifles | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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