Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 33
“I was a creditor of yours in one of your former existences,” replied the Apparition.
Who acts: Apparition, your · What happens: be, reply, exist · 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 (Apparition, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 yours | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 yours | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 creditor | det |
| 5 | creditor | creditor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yours | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 yours | case |
| 7 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 replied | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 replied | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 existences | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 existences | nmod:poss |
| 12 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 existences | amod |
| 13 | existences | existence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 replied | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 existences | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 existences | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Apparition | det |
| 18 | Apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the Apparition = apparition | of yours; a creditor nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Apparition | in one; of your former existences | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | exist in a quote | your | nom existence «state intransitive»: 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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