Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 52
“You must know,” said she, “that the place where you now find yourself is the abode of a terrible and blood-thirsty Ogre, and that I, who am human like yourself, was captured by him some time ago, and he proposes shortly to make me his wife.
Who acts: You, girl, place, Prince · What happens: know, say, find, be, capture, propose · To what, where: yourself, abode, wife, girl · 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 (You, girl, place, Prince), 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 abode | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 abode | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 place | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 abode | nsubj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 find | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 find | advmod |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 abode | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 abode | det |
| 21 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Ogre | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Ogre | det |
| 24 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Ogre | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 thirsty | cc |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thirsty | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 blood | punct |
| 28 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 terrible | conj |
| 29 | Ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 abode | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 captured | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 captured | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 human | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 human | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 human | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 human | nsubj |
| 36 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 human | cop |
| 37 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 captured | advcl |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 yourself | case |
| 39 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 human | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 human | punct |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 captured | aux:pass |
| 42 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 captured | obl |
| 45 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 time | det |
| 46 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 42 captured | advmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 proposes | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 proposes | cc |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 proposes | nsubj |
| 51 | proposes | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 52 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 51 proposes | advmod |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 make | mark |
| 54 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 proposes | advcl |
| 55 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 54 make | obj |
| 56 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 wife | nmod:poss |
| 57 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 make | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | must | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | present | you | yourself | now | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the place | the abode | of a terrible Ogre | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | girl | like yourself; who nsubj; human property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | capture in a quote | past · passive | Prince | ago property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | propose in a quote | present | Prince | shortly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's wife | girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary wife=Product |
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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