Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 37
Tse-ring undertook the charge of the gold, but in his new state of poverty and dependence he was unable to resist the temptation of spending some of it, and at last he found that the whole of the gold left in his charge was exhausted.
Who acts: Tse ring, stranger, temptation · What happens: undertake, be, resist, spend, find, leave · To what, where: charge, new state, temptation, some, last, gold
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 (Tse ring, stranger, temptation), 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 | Tse | Tse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ring | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tse | punct |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 undertook | nsubj |
| 4 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 charge | det |
| 6 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 undertook | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gold | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 charge | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 state | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 state | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 state | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 state | nmod:poss |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 state | amod |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 undertook | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 poverty | case |
| 17 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 state | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dependence | cc |
| 19 | dependence | dependence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 state | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 unable | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 unable | cop |
| 22 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 state | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 resist | mark |
| 24 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 unable | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 temptation | det |
| 26 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 resist | obj |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 spending | mark |
| 28 | spending | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 temptation | acl |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 spending | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 some | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 found | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 found | cc |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 last | case |
| 35 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 found | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 found | nsubj |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 undertook | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 whole | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 whole | det |
| 40 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 found | xcomp |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 gold | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 gold | det |
| 43 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 whole | obl |
| 44 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 gold | acl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 charge | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 charge | nmod:poss |
| 47 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 left | obl |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 49 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 whole | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 undertook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | past | Tse ring | the charge of the gold | stranger's new state of poverty and dependence | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | stranger | stranger's new state of poverty and dependence not said here | unable property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | resist | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | the temptation | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spend | gerund | the temptation not said here | some of ring | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset | ||||
| 5 | find | past | stranger | last | whole property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | leave | participle | the gold not said here | in stranger's charge result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in charge=Result | ||||
| 7 | exhaust | past · passive | stranger not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 8 | charge | the gold | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | charge | stranger | nom charge «act 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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