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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 80

He soon found out that during his absence the King had announced his intention of marrying Baki’s mother, and the poor lady, now that she had no son to protect her, had protested in vain, saying that she was already the wife of another.

Who acts: Baki, King, intention, lady · What happens: find out, announce, marry, have, protect, protest · To what, where: poor lady, intention, mother, son, lady, vain · 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 (Baki, King, intention, lady), 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

nsubjadvmodcompound:prtmarkcasenmod:possobldetnsubjauxadvclnmod:possobjmarkaclnmod:posscaseobjpunctccdetamodoblpunctadvmodmarknsubjconjdetobjmarkadvclobjpunctauxparataxiscaseoblpunctadvclmarknsubjcopadvmoddetccompcasenmodpunctrootHePRONsoonADVfoundVERBoutADPthatSCONJduringADPhisPRONabsenceNOUNtheDETKingPROPNhadAUXannouncedVERBhisPRONintentionNOUNofSCONJmarryingVERBBakiPROPN’sPARTmotherNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETpoorADJladyNOUN,PUNCTnowADVthatSCONJshePRONhadVERBnoDETsonNOUNtoPARTprotectVERBherPRON,PUNCThadAUXprotestedVERBinADPvainADJ,PUNCTsayingVERBthatSCONJshePRONwasAUXalreadyADVtheDETwifeNOUNofADPanotherDET.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 foundnsubj
2soonsoonADVDegree=Pos3 foundadvmod
3foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4outoutADP_3 foundcompound:prt
5thatthatSCONJ_12 announcedmark
6duringduringADP_8 absencecase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 absencenmod:poss
8absenceabsenceNOUNNumber=Sing12 announcedobl
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Kingdet
10KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing12 announcednsubj
11hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 announcedaux
12announcedannounceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 foundadvcl
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 intentionnmod:poss
14intentionintentionNOUNNumber=Sing12 announcedobj
15ofofSCONJ_16 marryingmark
16marryingmarryVERBVerbForm=Ger14 intentionacl
17BakiBakiPROPNNumber=Sing19 mothernmod:poss
18’s'sPART_17 Bakicase
19mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing16 marryingobj
20,,PUNCT_24 ladypunct
21andandCCONJ_24 ladycc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 ladydet
23poorpoorADJDegree=Pos24 ladyamod
24ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing3 foundobl
25,,PUNCT_29 hadpunct
26nownowADVPronType=Dem29 hadadvmod
27thatthatSCONJ_29 hadmark
28sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 hadnsubj
29hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 foundconj
30nonoDETPronType=Neg31 sondet
31sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing29 hadobj
32totoPART_33 protectmark
33protectprotectVERBVerbForm=Inf29 hadadvcl
34hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 protectobj
35,,PUNCT_37 protestedpunct
36hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin37 protestedaux
37protestedprotestVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 foundparataxis
38ininADP_39 vaincase
39vainvainADJDegree=Pos37 protestedobl
40,,PUNCT_41 sayingpunct
41sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part37 protestedadvcl
42thatthatSCONJ_47 wifemark
43sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs47 wifensubj
44wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin47 wifecop
45alreadyalreadyADV_47 wifeadvmod
46thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art47 wifedet
47wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing41 sayingccomp
48ofofADP_49 anothercase
49anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind47 wifenmod
50..PUNCT_3 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1find outpastBakithe poor ladysoon propertyvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2announce speech: otherpast · perfectthe KingBaki's intentionduring Baki's absencevn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Theme
3marrygerundBaki's intention not said hereBaki's mothervn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
4havepastladyno sonnowvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
5protectto-infinitivelady not said hereladyvn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
6protest speech: disagreepast · perfectvainvn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7say speech: assertgerundvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8is apastladythe wifeof anothertree rules
9absentBakinom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent
10intendBakinom intention «cognition 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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