Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 44
When they have rested and refreshed themselves enough, they proceed on their way, and not only do they not thank me for my hospitality, but they break off my tender branches and use them as whips, further to goad and distress their weary animals.
Who acts: Travellers · What happens: rest, refresh, proceed, not do, not thank, break off · To what, where: Travellers, way, me, tender branches, weary animals
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Travellers), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 rested | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rested | aux |
| 4 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 proceed | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 refreshed | cc |
| 6 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rested | conj |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 refreshed | obj |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 refreshed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rested | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 proceed | nsubj |
| 11 | proceed | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proceed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 do | advmod |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 do | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 proceed | conj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thank | nsubj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 thank | advmod |
| 22 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 thank | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 hospitality | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hospitality | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thank | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 break | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 break | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 break | nsubj |
| 30 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 proceed | conj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 break | compound:prt |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 branches | nmod:poss |
| 33 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 branches | compound |
| 34 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 break | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 use | cc |
| 36 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 break | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 use | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 whips | case |
| 39 | whips | whip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 use | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 goad | punct |
| 41 | further | further | ADV | _ | 43 goad | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 goad | mark |
| 43 | goad | goad | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 use | conj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 distress | cc |
| 45 | distress | distress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 goad | conj |
| 46 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 animals | nmod:poss |
| 47 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 animals | amod |
| 48 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 distress | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 proceed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present · perfect · passive | Travellers = traveller | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | refresh | past | Travellers = traveller | enough property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | proceed | present | Travellers = traveller | Travellers's way | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not do | infinitive | Travellers = traveller not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not thank speech: thank | present | Travellers = traveller | me | for my hospitality | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for hospitality=Attribute | |||
| 6 | break off | present | Travellers = traveller | my tender branches | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient | ||||
| 7 | use | infinitive | Travellers = traveller not said here | Travellers = traveller | as whips | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as whip=Attribute | |||
| 8 | goad | to-infinitive | Travellers = traveller not said here | further property | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | distress | infinitive | Travellers = traveller not said here | Travellers's weary animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |
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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