Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 3
The King, who was a proud and head-strong man, was not at all pleased that his wife should venture to maintain her opinion against his, and gradually became very much incensed against her.
Who acts: King, wife · What happens: be, not be, venture, maintain, become, incense · To what, where: proud man, all, opinion
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, wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 man | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 7 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 strong | cc |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strong | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 head | punct |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 proud | conj |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pleased | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 pleased | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 pleased | obl |
| 18 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 venture | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 venture | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 venture | aux |
| 23 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 pleased | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 maintain | mark |
| 25 | maintain | maintain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 venture | xcomp |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 27 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 maintain | obj |
| 28 | against | against | ADP | _ | 29 his | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 maintain | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 became | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 became | cc |
| 32 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 33 became | advmod |
| 33 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pleased | conj |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 much | advmod |
| 35 | much | much | ADV | _ | 36 incensed | advmod |
| 36 | incensed | incense | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 became | xcomp |
| 37 | against | against | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 incensed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the King | a proud man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the King | all | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | venture | should | King's wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | maintain | to-infinitive | King's wife not said here | wife's opinion | King obj | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme his=Attribute | |||
| 5 | become | past | the King not said here | gradually property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | incense | participle | the King not said here | against wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | opine | wife | nom opinion «cognition 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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