Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 59
Where is the boy whom I entrusted to your care?”
Who acts: I, your · What happens: be, entrust, care · To what, where: boy, care
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 (I, your), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 boy | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 entrusted | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 entrusted | nsubj |
| 7 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 boy | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 care | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 care | nmod:poss |
| 10 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entrusted | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | entrust | past | I | the boy | your care | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to care=Recipient | |||
| 3 | care | your | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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