Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 32
“Certainly, Madam,” replied the old man; “you are welcome to all I have,” and so saying, he handed over to her the whole of his provisions.
Who acts: Madam, you, man · What happens: reply, be, have, say, hand over, provide · To what, where: old man, whole, Madam · 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 (Madam, you, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 4 | Madam | Madam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Madam | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Madam | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 welcome | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 welcome | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 welcome | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 welcome | cop |
| 15 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 welcome | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 all | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 all | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 all | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saying | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 saying | advmod |
| 24 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 welcome | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 handed | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 handed | nsubj |
| 27 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 handed | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 handed | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 whole | det |
| 32 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 handed | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 provisions | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 provisions | nmod:poss |
| 35 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 whole | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Madam | the old man | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | to all; welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Madam | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hand over | past | man | the whole of man's provisions | Madam | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination | |||
| 6 | provide | man | nom provision «communication intransitive»: 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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