Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 42
“I entrusted to you a bag of gold-dust, and you have given me back only sand.”
Who acts: Tse ring, you · What happens: entrust, give · To what, where: bag, you, sand, Tse ring
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, you), 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 | _ | 3 entrusted | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 entrusted | nsubj |
| 3 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 entrusted | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bag | det |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entrusted | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dust | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dust | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 gold | punct |
| 11 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bag | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 given | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 given | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 entrusted | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 given | iobj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 only | advmod |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 sand | advmod |
| 20 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entrusted | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 entrusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrust in a quote | past | Tse ring = ring | a bag of gold dust | you | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · perfect | you | sand | Tse ring = ring | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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