The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 8
The book calls this «the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is careful to bestow»: «the gift of forgetfulness» (a demi-god is a half-god; bestow = give).
Who acts: book, kindly demi god, demi god · What happens: call, be, bestow, give, gift · To what, where: this, that, half god, forgetfulness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book, kindly demi god, demi god), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 calls | obj |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 gift | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gift | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gift | amod |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 gift | amod |
| 9 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bestow | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 god | det |
| 12 | kindly | kindly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 god | amod |
| 13 | demi | demi | X | _ | 15 god | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 demi | punct |
| 15 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 careful | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 careful | cop |
| 17 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gift | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bestow | mark |
| 19 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 careful | xcomp |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 gift | punct |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 gift | punct |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 gift | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gift | det |
| 24 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gift | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 forgetfulness | case |
| 26 | forgetfulness | forgetfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gift | nmod |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 gift | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 god | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 god | det |
| 30 | demi | demi | X | _ | 32 god | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 demi | punct |
| 32 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 god | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 god | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 god | det |
| 35 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 37 god | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 half | punct |
| 37 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gift | parataxis |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 bestow | punct |
| 39 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 god | parataxis |
| 40 | = | = | SYM | _ | 41 give | punct |
| 41 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 bestow | conj |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 god | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | the book | this | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme gift=Result | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the kindly demi god | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bestow in a quote | to-infinitive | the kindly demi god not said here | that | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a demi god | a half god | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bestow | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | give | infinitive | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | gift in a quote | forgetfulness | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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.
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The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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