Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 13
In the course of my wanderings I learned that there exists amongst this fascinating and little-known people a wealth of folk-lore, hitherto inaccessible to the outside world, and I made efforts to collect as many of their stories as I could.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: learn, exist, know, make, collect, wander · To what, where: course, efforts, many · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 course | det |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learned | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wanderings | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 course | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 learned | nsubj |
| 8 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 exists | mark |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 exists | advmod |
| 11 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 learned | ccomp |
| 12 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 people | nsubj |
| 14 | fascinating | fascinating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 people | cc |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 known | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 little | punct |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exists | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wealth | det |
| 21 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 people | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lore | case |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lore | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 folk | punct |
| 25 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wealth | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 inaccessible | punct |
| 27 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 28 inaccessible | advmod |
| 28 | inaccessible | inaccessible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lore | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 31 | outside | outside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 world | amod |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 inaccessible | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 made | cc |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 made | nsubj |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 learned | conj |
| 37 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 made | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 collect | mark |
| 39 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 made | advcl |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 many | advmod |
| 41 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 collect | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 stories | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 stories | nmod:poss |
| 44 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 many | nmod |
| 45 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 could | mark |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 could | nsubj |
| 47 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 many | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | I | the course of my wanderings | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exist | present | there | amongst fascinating known people this | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst people=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | make | past | I | efforts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product | ||||
| 5 | collect | to-infinitive | I not said here | many of efforts's stories | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wander | my | nom wandering «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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