Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 94
“For instance, I could tell the King something about Prince Baki, which perhaps he would not like to hear.”
Who acts: shell, Baki · What happens: tell, not like, hear · To what, where: something · 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 (shell, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 instance | case |
| 3 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 instance | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 something | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 something | compound |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 tell | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 Baki | case |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Baki | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 something | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 like | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 like | obj |
| 16 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 20 like | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 like | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 like | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 something | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hear | mark |
| 22 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 like | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | could | the shell = shell | something | for instance; about Baki Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent something=Recipient about baki=Topic | |||
| 2 | not like in a quote | would | Baki | which obj; perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Baki not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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