Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 16
Secondly, some of the very best and most characteristic stories are unfit for publication in such a book as this.
Who acts: most characteristic stories · What happens: be · To what, where: book
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 (most characteristic stories), 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 | Secondly | secondly | ADV | _ | 7 best | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Secondly | punct |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 best | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 best | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 best | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 best | advmod |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 unfit | cc |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 stories | amod |
| 10 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stories | compound |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 unfit | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 unfit | cop |
| 13 | unfit | unfit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 best | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 publication | case |
| 15 | publication | publication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unfit | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 book | case |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 book | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 book | det |
| 19 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unfit | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 this | case |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 book | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 best | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | most characteristic stories | such book as this | for publication; unfit property | tree rules |
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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