Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 56
Next to him was sitting the Beggar who had so insulted the Boy, and who had disbelieved his story.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: sit, insult, disbelieve · To what, where: Beggar, Boy, story
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), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 sitting | mark |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 insulted | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Beggar | det |
| 7 | Beggar | Beggar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 insulted | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 insulted | aux |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 insulted | advmod |
| 11 | insulted | insult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Boy | det |
| 13 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 insulted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disbelieved | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 disbelieved | cc |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 disbelieved | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 disbelieved | aux |
| 18 | disbelieved | disbelieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 insulted | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 story | nmod:poss |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disbelieved | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 insulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | Boy | the Beggar | next property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beggar=Theme | |||
| 2 | insult | past · perfect · passive | the Boy | who nsubj:pass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer boy=Result | ||||
| 3 | disbelieve | past · perfect | Boy's story | who nsubj | tree rules |
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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