Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 40
The old man, who was of a very jealous and vindictive temper, was very much incensed against the Boy, and had determined to avenge himself upon him.
Who acts: old man · What happens: be, incense, determine, avenge · To what, where: old man, Boy
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 (old man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 incensed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 temper | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 temper | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 temper | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 temper | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 temper | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 jealous | advmod |
| 10 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 temper | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 vindictive | cc |
| 12 | vindictive | vindictive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jealous | conj |
| 13 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 incensed | aux:pass |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 incensed | advmod |
| 18 | incensed | incense | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 Boy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Boy | det |
| 21 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 incensed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 determined | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 determined | cc |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 determined | aux |
| 25 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 incensed | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 avenge | mark |
| 27 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 determined | xcomp |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 avenge | obj |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 avenge | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 incensed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old man and a jealous temper | of a jealous temper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | incense | past · passive | the old man and a jealous temper | against the Boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | determine | past · perfect | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | avenge | to-infinitive | Boy | upon Boy | 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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