Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 16
The Boy, who heard what they said, was quite willing to agree, but was totally unable to control his horse, so he shouted to them that he accepted their submission on condition that they were able to stop his horse.
Who acts: Boy, soldiers · What happens: hear, say, be, agree, control, shout · To what, where: horse, soldiers, submission, condition · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Defeated the Enemy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, soldiers), 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 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 willing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Boy | acl:relcl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 said | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boy | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 willing | cop |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 willing | advmod |
| 12 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 agree | mark |
| 14 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 willing | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unable | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 unable | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 unable | cop |
| 18 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 19 unable | advmod |
| 19 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 willing | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 control | mark |
| 21 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 unable | xcomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horse | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 control | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shouted | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 shouted | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 shouted | nsubj |
| 27 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 willing | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 shouted | obl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 accepted | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 accepted | nsubj |
| 32 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 shouted | advcl |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 submission | nmod:poss |
| 34 | submission | submission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 accepted | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 condition | case |
| 36 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 accepted | obl |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 able | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 able | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 able | cop |
| 40 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 condition | acl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 stop | mark |
| 42 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 able | xcomp |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 horse | nmod:poss |
| 44 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stop | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Boy | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | soldiers = soldier | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the Boy | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | to-infinitive | the Boy not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the Boy not said here | totally, unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | control | to-infinitive | the Boy not said here | Boy's horse | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 7 | shout speech: express | past | Boy | soldiers = soldier | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | accept | past | Boy | soldiers's submission | condition | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent submission=Theme | |||
| 9 | is | past | soldiers = soldier | condition not said here | able property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | stop | to-infinitive | soldiers = soldier not said here | Boy's horse | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality horse=Eventuality | ||||
| 11 | submit | soldiers = soldier | nom submission «communication 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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