Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 2
It happened not long afterwards that a war broke out with a neighbouring country, and the King sent for the Boy, and asked him whether he would be able to give any assistance in the campaign against the enemy.
Who acts: It, war, King, Boy · What happens: not happen, break out, neighbour, send, ask, be · To what, where: Boy, assistance, campaign · 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 (It, war, King, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 happened | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 happened | advmod |
| 5 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 happened | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 broke | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 war | det |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 broke | compound:prt |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 13 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 country | amod |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sent | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Boy | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Boy | det |
| 22 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 asked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asked | cc |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sent | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 asked | iobj |
| 27 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 31 able | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 able | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 able | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 able | cop |
| 31 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 asked | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 give | mark |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 able | xcomp |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 assistance | det |
| 35 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 campaign | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 campaign | det |
| 38 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 assistance | nmod |
| 39 | against | against | ADP | _ | 41 enemy | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 enemy | det |
| 41 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 campaign | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen | past | It | afterwards, long property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break out | past | a war | with a neighbouring country | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with country=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | send | past | the King | for the Boy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the King not said here | Boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is | would | Boy | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | give | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | any assistance | the campaign against the enemy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme |
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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