Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 17

[2] And, thirdly, human nature being much the same all the world over, it was not always possible to find a suitable raconteur in a suitable mood for story-telling.

Who acts: human nature, it, suitable mood · What happens: be, not be, find, tell · To what, where: suitable raconteur, suitable mood · 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 (human nature, it, suitable mood), 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	_	2 2	punct
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 same	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 2	punct
4	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 same	cc
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 And	punct
6	thirdly	thirdly	ADV	_	13 same	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thirdly	punct
8	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nature	amod
9	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 same	nsubj
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 same	cop
11	much	much	ADV	_	13 same	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 same	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 world	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 over	obl
17	over	over	ADV	_	13 same	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 possible	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 possible	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 possible	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 possible	advmod
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 possible	advmod
23	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 same	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 find	mark
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 possible	csubj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 raconteur	det
27	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 raconteur	amod
28	raconteur	raconteur	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 find	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 mood	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mood	det
31	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mood	amod
32	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 raconteur	nmod
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 telling	mark
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 telling	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 story	punct
36	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 mood	acl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	human nature			2 discourse; over, same, thirdly property	tree rules
2	not is	past	it			always, possible property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive		a suitable raconteur	a suitable mood		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raconteur=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	a suitable mood not said here			story compound	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 17