Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 69
“What right,” said he, “has an ugly, defenceless creature like you to possess such a lovely house?
Who acts: you · What happens: say, have, possess · To what, where: ugly defenceless creature, lovely house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 2 What | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 creature | det |
| 12 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 creature | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ugly | punct |
| 14 | defenceless | defenceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 creature | amod |
| 15 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 16 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 19 possess | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 possess | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 possess | mark |
| 19 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 creature | acl |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 house | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 22 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 house | amod |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 possess | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | What nsubj:outer; strength nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | a ugly defenceless creature | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient | |||||
| 3 | possess in a quote | to-infinitive | you | such lovely house | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=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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