Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 19
He carried over with him a jug of beer, and, on the pretence of conviviality, he offered his Neighbour a drink, and during the course of the conversation which followed he asked Cham-ba to tell him the secret of his new wealth.
Who acts: change, pretence, conversation · What happens: carry over, offer, follow, ask, tell · To what, where: jug, drink, Neighbour, Cham ba, secret, change · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change, pretence, conversation), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 jug | det |
| 7 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 beer | case |
| 9 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jug | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 offered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 offered | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pretence | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 pretence | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pretence | det |
| 15 | pretence | pretence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offered | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 conviviality | case |
| 17 | conviviality | conviviality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pretence | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pretence | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 offered | nsubj |
| 20 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Neighbour | Neighbour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 offered | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 drink | det |
| 24 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offered | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 asked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 asked | cc |
| 27 | during | during | ADP | _ | 29 course | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 course | det |
| 29 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 asked | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 conversation | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 conversation | det |
| 32 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 course | nmod |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 followed | nsubj |
| 34 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 conversation | acl:relcl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 asked | nsubj |
| 36 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | parataxis |
| 37 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 ba | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Cham | punct |
| 39 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 asked | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 tell | mark |
| 41 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 asked | ccomp |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 tell | iobj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 secret | det |
| 44 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 tell | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 wealth | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 47 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 wealth | amod |
| 48 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 secret | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry over | past | change | a jug of beer | with ear; over property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jug=Theme | |||
| 2 | offer | past | the pretence of conviviality | a drink | change's Neighbour | change nsubj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Goal drink=Theme | ||
| 3 | follow | past | the conversation | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | change | Cham ba | during the course of the conversation | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent ba=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | the secret of change's new wealth | change | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient secret=Topic |
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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