Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 51
The young Prince apologised, and explained the circumstances of the case as best he could, whereupon the girl addressed him as follows:
Who acts: young Prince, girl · What happens: apologise, explain, address, follow · To what, where: circumstances, Prince
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 (young Prince, girl), 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 | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 apologised | nsubj |
| 4 | apologised | apologise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 explained | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 explained | cc |
| 7 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 apologised | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 circumstances | det |
| 9 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 explained | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 case | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 case | det |
| 12 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 circumstances | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 best | case |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 explained | ccomp |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 could | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 best | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 addressed | punct |
| 18 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 addressed | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 addressed | nsubj |
| 21 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 apologised | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 addressed | obj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 follows | mark |
| 24 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 addressed | advcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 apologised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apologise speech: apologize | past | the young Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | the young Prince not said here | the circumstances of the case | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circumstance=Topic | ||||
| 3 | address | past | the girl | Prince | whereupon property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 4 | follow | present | the girl 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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