Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 36
“Well, Your Majesty, your Servant said that if I would carry this jar of oil, he would give me a hen, and it seemed to me quite natural to consider within myself what I should do with my hen when I got it.
Who acts: Servant, Boy, it · What happens: say, carry, give, seem, consider, do · To what, where: jar, hen, Servant · 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 (Servant, Boy, it), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | punct |
| 4 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Well | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Servant | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | aux |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 jar | det |
| 16 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 oil | case |
| 18 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jar | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 carry | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hen | det |
| 25 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seemed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 seemed | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 seemed | nsubj |
| 29 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 natural | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 seemed | obl |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 natural | advmod |
| 33 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 consider | mark |
| 35 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 natural | csubj |
| 36 | within | within | ADP | _ | 37 myself | case |
| 37 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 consider | obl |
| 38 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 do | obj |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 do | nsubj |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 do | aux |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 consider | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 hen | case |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 hen | nmod:poss |
| 44 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 do | obl |
| 45 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 got | advmod |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 got | nsubj |
| 47 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 do | advcl |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 got | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | your Servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | carry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | your Servant = servant | this jar of oil | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | would | Boy | a hen | your Servant = servant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hen=Theme | |||
| 4 | seem in a quote | past | it | your Servant = servant | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | consider in a quote | to-infinitive | within your Servant = servant | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | should | your Servant = servant | with my hen; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | get in a quote | past | your Servant = servant | jar | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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