Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 20
Cham-ba, who was of a very unsuspicious nature, related to him the whole story of the Sparrow, the grain, and the jewels, and having learnt the secret the rich man returned to his own house, pondering deeply how he could turn this story to his own advantage.
Who acts: Cham ba, rich man, change · What happens: be, learn, return, ponder, turn · To what, where: secret, own house, story, own advantage, Cham ba
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 (Cham ba, rich man, change), 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 | Cham | cham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ba | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cham | punct |
| 3 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nature | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 nature | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nature | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 nature | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 nature | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 unsuspicious | advmod |
| 10 | unsuspicious | unsuspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nature | amod |
| 11 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ba | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 related | punct |
| 13 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nature | amod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 related | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 story | amod |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 related | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Sparrow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sparrow | det |
| 21 | Sparrow | Sparrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 story | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grain | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 grain | det |
| 24 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Sparrow | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 jewels | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 jewels | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 jewels | det |
| 28 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ba | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 learnt | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 learnt | cc |
| 31 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 learnt | aux |
| 32 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 ba | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 secret | det |
| 34 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 learnt | obj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 36 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 returned | nsubj |
| 38 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 secret | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 house | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 house | nmod:poss |
| 41 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 house | amod |
| 42 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 returned | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 pondering | punct |
| 44 | pondering | ponder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 learnt | advcl |
| 45 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 44 pondering | advmod |
| 46 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 turn | advmod |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 turn | nsubj |
| 48 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 turn | aux |
| 49 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 pondering | advcl |
| 50 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 story | det |
| 51 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 turn | obj |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 advantage | case |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 advantage | nmod:poss |
| 54 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 advantage | amod |
| 55 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 turn | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ba | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Cham ba and the jewels | of a unsuspicious nature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | gerund · perfect | the secret | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return | past | the rich man | the secret not said here | change's own house | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent secret=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 4 | ponder | gerund | deeply property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | turn | could | change | this story | change's own advantage | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent story=Theme to advantage=Trajectory |
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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