Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 40
Tse-ring produced the bag and handed it over to Cham-ba without saying anything, and when Cham-ba opened it to see whether the gold was all right he found that it contained sand instead of gold.
Who acts: Tse ring, Cham ba, gold, stranger · What happens: produce, hand over, say, open, see, be · To what, where: bag, Cham ba, anything, sand · 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 (Tse ring, Cham ba, gold, stranger), 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 produced | nsubj |
| 4 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bag | det |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 produced | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 handed | cc |
| 8 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 produced | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 handed | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 handed | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ba | case |
| 12 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ba | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cham | punct |
| 14 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 handed | obl |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 saying | mark |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 handed | advcl |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 saying | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 opened | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 opened | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 opened | advmod |
| 21 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ba | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Cham | punct |
| 23 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 opened | nsubj |
| 24 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 produced | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 opened | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 opened | advcl |
| 28 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 33 right | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gold | det |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 right | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 right | cop |
| 32 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 right | advmod |
| 33 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 see | ccomp |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 found | nsubj |
| 35 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 right | acl:relcl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 contained | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 contained | nsubj |
| 38 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 found | ccomp |
| 39 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 contained | obj |
| 40 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 42 gold | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 instead | fixed |
| 42 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 contained | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past | Tse ring | the bag | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Result | ||||
| 2 | hand over | past | Tse ring not said here | bag | Cham ba | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ba=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Tse ring not said here | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 4 | open | past | Cham ba | bag | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | Cham ba not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the gold | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find | past | stranger | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | contain | past | gold | sand | instead gold | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sand=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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