Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 28
The rich man was greatly delighted on hearing this, and thought to himself that he would soon be the possessor of beautiful jewels like his Neighbour.
Who acts: rich man, change · What happens: be, hear, think · To what, where: this, change, possessor · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 hearing | mark |
| 8 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 delighted | advcl |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 hearing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 delighted | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 thought | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 possessor | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 possessor | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 possessor | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 possessor | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 possessor | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 possessor | det |
| 21 | possessor | possessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 jewels | case |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 jewels | amod |
| 24 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 possessor | nmod |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 Neighbour | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 jewels | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rich man | delighted, greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the rich man not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | participle | the rich man not said here | change | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | would | change | the possessor | of beautiful jewels like change's Neighbour; soon property | tree rules |
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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