Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 64
Finally, on thinking the matter over, he decided it was better to pay up the gold he had stolen, on condition of having his proper Son restored to him.
Who acts: father, condition · What happens: think over, decide, be, pay up, steal, have · To what, where: matter, gold, proper Son, father · 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 (father, condition), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 10 decided | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 thinking | mark |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 decided | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 matter | det |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 thinking | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 decided | nsubj |
| 10 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 better | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 better | cop |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 decided | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pay | mark |
| 15 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 better | csubj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 pay | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gold | det |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pay | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stolen | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stolen | aux |
| 21 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 gold | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 condition | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 condition | case |
| 24 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 restored | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 having | mark |
| 26 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 condition | acl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 Son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Son | amod |
| 29 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 having | obj |
| 30 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 decided | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 restored | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think over speech: other | gerund | father not said here | the matter | over property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot matter=Theme | |||
| 2 | decide | past | father | finally property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pay up | to-infinitive | the gold | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Asset | |||||
| 5 | steal | past · perfect | father | the gold not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | gerund | condition not said here | father's proper Son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 7 | restore | past | condition | father | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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