Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 31
The people of the house who had seen him on the previous day, when he had found the turquoise, were inclined to believe him, and asked him what they should do to procure relief for their mistress.
Who acts: people, Boy · What happens: see, find, be, believe, ask, do · To what, where: Boy, turquoise, relief
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 inclined | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 found | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | aux |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 turquoise | det |
| 20 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 inclined | cop |
| 23 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 believe | mark |
| 25 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 inclined | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 believe | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 asked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 asked | cc |
| 29 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 inclined | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 asked | iobj |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 do | obj |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 do | nsubj |
| 33 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 do | aux |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 asked | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 procure | mark |
| 36 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 do | xcomp |
| 37 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 procure | obj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 mistress | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 relief | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 inclined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | the people of the house | Boy | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | past · perfect | Boy | the turquoise | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turquoise=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the people of the house | inclined property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | believe | to-infinitive | the people of the house not said here | Boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the people of the house not said here | Boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | should | people | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | procure | to-infinitive | people not said here | relief | for people's mistress | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent relief=Theme for mistress=Beneficiary |
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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