Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 54

“Ah!” said the Boy, “here is evidently a dishonest man; it is no good our proceeding any further in our search until he has been beaten and turned out of here.”

Who acts: Boy, head, our · What happens: say, be, beat, turn out, search · To what, where: dishonest man, good proceeding, Boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, head, our), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Boy	det
7	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 here	punct
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 man	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 man	cop
12	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	15 man	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 proceeding	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 proceeding	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 proceeding	cop
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 proceeding	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 proceeding	amod
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 proceeding	nmod:poss
22	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
23	any	any	ADV	_	24 further	advmod
24	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 beaten	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 search	case
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 search	nmod:poss
27	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 further	obl
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 beaten	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 beaten	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 beaten	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 beaten	aux:pass
32	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 proceeding	acl:relcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 turned	cc
34	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 beaten	conj
35	out	out	ADP	_	37 here	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 here	case
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 turned	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		a dishonest man	here	evidently property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	head	our good proceeding		our nmod:poss	tree rules
4	beat in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Boy		far property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	turn out in a quote	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location here=Theme
6	search in a quote		our				nom search «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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 54

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 54