Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 128
Meanwhile the Landlord and the Lady having waited until long after dark, the Landlord was reluctantly obliged to own that he had lost his bet.
Who acts: Landlord, cat · What happens: wait, oblige, own, lose, bet · To what, where: Landlord, bet
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Landlord, cat), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 Landlord | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Landlord | det |
| 3 | Landlord | Landlord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Lady | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lady | det |
| 6 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Landlord | conj |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 waited | aux |
| 8 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | until | until | ADP | _ | 10 long | case |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 waited | obl |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 dark | case |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waited | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 obliged | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Landlord | det |
| 15 | Landlord | Landlord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obliged | aux:pass |
| 17 | reluctantly | reluctantly | ADV | _ | 18 obliged | advmod |
| 18 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 waited | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 own | mark |
| 20 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 obliged | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 lost | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lost | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lost | aux |
| 24 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 own | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lost | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund · perfect | the Landlord and the Lady | after dark | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | the Landlord | reluctantly property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | own | to-infinitive | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | cat | cat's bet | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | bet | cat | nom bet «possession 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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