Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 53
Meanwhile he has taught me certain magic spells, which enable me to transform myself into any animal I please, and to come and go at my pleasure; but without the assistance of some human being it is impossible for me to escape from his clutches.
Who acts: certain magic spells, me, some, my, Prince · What happens: teach, enable, transform, come, go, be · To what, where: Prince, me, myself, pleasure, assistance, clutches
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 (certain magic spells, me, some, my), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 taught | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taught | aux |
| 4 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 taught | iobj |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spells | amod |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spells | compound |
| 8 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taught | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enable | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 enable | nsubj |
| 11 | enable | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spells | acl:relcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 enable | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 transform | mark |
| 14 | transform | transform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 enable | xcomp |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 transform | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 animal | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 animal | det |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 transform | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 please | nsubj |
| 20 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 18 animal | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 come | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 transform | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 come | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 pleasure | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 29 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 assistance | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 assistance | cc |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 34 assistance | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 assistance | det |
| 34 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taught | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 impossible | mark |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 impossible | nsubj |
| 37 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 impossible | amod |
| 38 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 impossible | cop |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 impossible | expl |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 impossible | cop |
| 41 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 assistance | acl:relcl |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 impossible | obl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 escape | mark |
| 45 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 impossible | xcomp |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 clutches | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 clutches | nmod:poss |
| 48 | clutches | clutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 escape | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present · perfect · passive | Prince | me | certain magic spells obj; the assistance parataxis; meanwhile property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enable | present | certain magic spells | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | transform | to-infinitive | me not said here | myself | any animal obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | me not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | me not said here | my pleasure | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at pleasure=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | gerund | some | the assistance not said here | for me; impossible property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | escape | to-infinitive | some not said here | Prince's clutches | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from clutch=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | please | my | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | clutch | Prince | nom clutch «act 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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