Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 35
The King asked the Boy what he meant by his conduct, and the Boy replied:
Who acts: King, Boy · What happens: ask, mean, reply, conduct · To what, where: Boy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, Boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Boy | det |
| 5 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | iobj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 meant | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meant | nsubj |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 conduct | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 11 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meant | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 replied | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Boy | det |
| 15 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | the Boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | King | by King's conduct; what obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Boy | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | conduct | King | nom conduct «act 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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