Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 58
Calling the young lady to him, he commanded her to bring his dinner, and after making a sumptuous repast he sat down on some cushions and began playing the guitar.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: call, command, bring, make, sit down, begin · To what, where: young lady, Prince, Ogre, dinner, sumptuous repast, cushions · 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 (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 | Calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 commanded | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Calling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Calling | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 commanded | nsubj |
| 9 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 commanded | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 commanded | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sat | cc |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 making | mark |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 sat | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 repast | det |
| 20 | sumptuous | sumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 repast | amod |
| 21 | repast | repast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sat | nsubj |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 commanded | parataxis |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 sat | compound:prt |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 cushions | case |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 cushions | det |
| 27 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sat | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 began | cc |
| 29 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sat | conj |
| 30 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 began | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 guitar | det |
| 32 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 playing | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | Prince not said here | the young lady | Prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | command | past | Prince | Ogre | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's dinner | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | Prince not said here | a sumptuous repast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset repast=Product | ||||
| 5 | sit down | past | Prince | some cushions | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cushion=Location | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | Prince not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | play | gerund | Prince not said here | the guitar | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guitar=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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