Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 24
I propose, therefore, that in spite of our real opinion in the matter we should make a public announcement to the effect that the King was right in his argument.”
Who acts: I, we, King, our · What happens: propose, make, be, spite, opine, argue · To what, where: public announcement, spite, effect, argument, real opinion, matter
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 (I, we, King, our), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 propose | nsubj |
| 2 | propose | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 propose | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 propose | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 spite | case |
| 8 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 opinion | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 opinion | amod |
| 12 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spite | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 matter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 matter | det |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opinion | nmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 propose | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 announcement | det |
| 20 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 announcement | amod |
| 21 | announcement | announcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 effect | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 effect | det |
| 24 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 right | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 right | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 right | cop |
| 29 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 effect | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 argument | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 argument | nmod:poss |
| 32 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 right | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 propose | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 propose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | present | I | therefore property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | should | we | a public announcement | spite of our real opinion in the matter | to the effect | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent announcement=Product | ||
| 3 | is | past | the King | the effect not said here | King's argument | right property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | spite | our real opinion in the matter | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | opine | our | the matter | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 6 | argue | King | nom argument «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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