Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 81
Baki was very indignant when he heard of this treacherous conduct on the part of the King, and determined to foil his plans.
Who acts: Baki · What happens: be, hear, foil, plan · To what, where: plans
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), 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 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 indignant | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 indignant | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 indignant | advmod |
| 4 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 indignant | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 conduct | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 conduct | det |
| 10 | treacherous | treacherous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 conduct | amod |
| 11 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 part | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conduct | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 determined | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 determined | cc |
| 20 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 indignant | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 foil | mark |
| 22 | foil | foil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 determined | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 plans | nmod:poss |
| 24 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 foil | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 indignant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Baki | indignant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Baki | of this treacherous conduct on the part of the King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of conduct=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | be | Baki not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | foil | to-infinitive | Baki not said here | Baki's plans | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | plan | Baki | nom plan «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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