Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 33
When the Queen had made a good meal, the old man addressed her as follows:
Who acts: Queen, old man · What happens: make, address, follow · To what, where: good meal, Queen
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 (Queen, old 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 made | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 addressed | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 meal | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meal | amod |
| 8 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 addressed | nsubj |
| 13 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 addressed | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 follows | mark |
| 16 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 addressed | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | the Queen | a good meal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product | ||||
| 2 | address | past | the old man | Queen | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | the old man not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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