Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 48
Soon afterwards Cham-ba announced his intention of starting a school for little boys, where they would be taught free, and Tse-ring, thinking that a free education for his Son was not to be neglected, sent over his young Son to attend the school.
Who acts: Cham, intention · What happens: announce, start, teach, think, not neglect, send · To what, where: intention, school, ba, free education · 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 (Cham, intention), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 announced | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 announced | advmod |
| 3 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 announced | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ba | punct |
| 5 | ba | BA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cham | flat |
| 6 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 intention | nmod:poss |
| 8 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 announced | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 starting | mark |
| 10 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 intention | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 school | det |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 starting | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 boys | case |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boys | amod |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 starting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taught | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 taught | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 taught | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 taught | aux:pass |
| 21 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 boys | acl:relcl |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 taught | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ring | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ring | cc |
| 25 | Tse | Tse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ring | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tse | punct |
| 27 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 announced | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thinking | punct |
| 29 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 announced | advcl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 neglected | mark |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 education | det |
| 32 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 education | amod |
| 33 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 neglected | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 Son | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 Son | nmod:poss |
| 36 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 education | nmod |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 neglected | aux:pass |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 neglected | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 neglected | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 neglected | aux:pass |
| 41 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 thinking | ccomp |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sent | punct |
| 43 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 neglected | conj |
| 44 | over | over | ADP | _ | 47 Son | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 Son | nmod:poss |
| 46 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Son | amod |
| 47 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 sent | obl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 attend | mark |
| 49 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 sent | advcl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 school | det |
| 51 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 attend | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | Cham | Cham's intention | Tse ring parataxis; afterwards, soon property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Theme | |||
| 2 | start | gerund | Cham's intention not said here | a school | for little boys | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | teach speech: other | would · passive | ba | free property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | Cham not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not neglect | past · passive | a free education for Cham's Son | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | send | participle | over Cham's young Son | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | attend | to-infinitive | the school | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Goal | |||||
| 8 | intend | Cham | nom intention «cognition 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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