Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 34
“You were then heavily in my debt, and I have come back here with all the necessary documents to claim what you owed me.”
Who acts: You, Apparition · What happens: be, come back, claim, owe · To what, where: debt, Apparition
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 (You, Apparition), 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 | _ | 8 debt | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 debt | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 debt | cop |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 heavily | advmod |
| 5 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 8 debt | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 debt | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 debt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 debt | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 here | advmod |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 come | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 documents | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 documents | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 documents | det |
| 19 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 documents | amod |
| 20 | documents | document | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 come | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 claim | mark |
| 22 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | advcl |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 claim | obj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 owed | nsubj |
| 25 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 owed | iobj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 debt | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 debt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | You | my debt | then | my nmod:poss; heavily property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | come back in a quote | present · perfect | the Apparition = apparition | here | with all necessary documents | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | claim speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the Apparition = apparition not said here | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | owe in a quote | past | you | the Apparition = apparition | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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