Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 50
As soon as he was gone Cham-ba procured a tame Monkey and taught it to say the following words.
Who acts: education, gone Cham ba · What happens: be, procure, teach, say, follow · To what, where: tame Monkey, Monkey, following words · 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 (education, gone Cham ba), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 procured | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | cop |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ba | amod |
| 7 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ba | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Cham | punct |
| 9 | ba | BA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 procured | nsubj |
| 10 | procured | procure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Monkey | det |
| 12 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Monkey | amod |
| 13 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 procured | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taught | cc |
| 15 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 procured | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taught | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taught | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 words | det |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 words | amod |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 say | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 procured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | education | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | procure | past | gone Cham ba | a tame Monkey | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme | |||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | gone Cham ba not said here | Monkey | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | gone Cham ba not said here | the following words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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