Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 3
The rich man, whose name was Tse-ring, was proud, arrogant, and stingy; whilst the poor man, whose name was Cham-ba, was a kind-hearted man, who was generous to all as far as his means allowed.
Who acts: rich man, poor man, Cham ba · What happens: be, mean, allow, name · To what, where: Tse ring, Cham ba, hearted man
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, poor man, Cham ba), 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 | 13 proud | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ring | cop |
| 8 | Tse | Tse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ring | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ring | punct |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 proud | cop |
| 13 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 arrogant | punct |
| 15 | arrogant | arrogant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 proud | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stingy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stingy | cc |
| 18 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 proud | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 20 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 23 man | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ba | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 name | punct |
| 25 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | conj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 ba | cop |
| 28 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ba | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 ba | punct |
| 30 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proud | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 man | punct |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 man | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 34 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hearted | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 kind | punct |
| 36 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ba | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 generous | punct |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 generous | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 generous | cop |
| 41 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ba | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 all | case |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 generous | obl |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 far | advmod |
| 45 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 means | advmod |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 means | mark |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 means | nmod:poss |
| 48 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 generous | advcl |
| 49 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 means | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the rich man and the rich man and the rich man's name and Tse ring's name and Tse ring not said here | Tse ring | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the rich man and the rich man and the rich man's name and Tse ring's name and Tse ring | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the rich man and the rich man and the rich man's name and Tse ring's name and Tse ring not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | the rich man and the rich man and the rich man's name and Tse ring's name and Tse ring not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | the poor man and the poor man and the poor man's name's name | Cham ba and a hearted man | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the poor man and the poor man and the poor man's name's name not said here | a hearted man | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Cham ba and a hearted man | to all; generous property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | mean | present | Cham ba and a hearted man not said here | his = he nmod:poss; far property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 9 | allow not said to happen | participle | Cham ba and a hearted man not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 10 | name | the rich man and the rich man and name and Tse ring's name and Tse ring | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | name | the poor man and the poor man and name's name | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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