Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 47

Food was brought to me, as much as I could eat every day, and I had a special attendant who used to wash and groom me, and to see to all my wants.

Who acts: I, special attendant, my · What happens: bring, eat, have, use, wash, groom · To what, where: Food, me, special attendant

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, special attendant, my), 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	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	aux:pass
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 much	punct
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brought	conj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 eat	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	aux
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 much	acl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 attendant	det
20	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 attendant	amod
21	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 used	nsubj
23	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 attendant	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 wash	mark
25	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 used	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 groom	cc
27	groom	groom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wash	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 groom	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 had	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 wants	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 wants	det:predet
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wants	nmod:poss
36	wants	want	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 see	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		Food	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to i=Destination
2	eat	could	I			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	I	a special attendant				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Patient
4	use	past	a special attendant					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	wash	to-infinitive	a special attendant not said here					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	groom	infinitive	a special attendant not said here	me				vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
7	see	to-infinitive	I not said here				to my wants	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	want		my					nom want «state 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 47