Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 19
A good story must be natural, and necessitates sympathy on the part both of teller and of hearer.
Who acts: good story · What happens: be, necessitate · To what, where: sympathy, part
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 (good story), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 natural | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 natural | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 natural | cop |
| 6 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 necessitates | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 necessitates | cc |
| 9 | necessitates | necessitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 natural | parataxis |
| 10 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 necessitates | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 part | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 part | det |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 necessitates | obl |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 part | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 teller | case |
| 16 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 both | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hearer | cc |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hearer | case |
| 19 | hearer | hearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teller | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 natural | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | a good story | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | necessitate | present | sympathy | the part both of teller and hearer | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sympathy=Precondition |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/1/19/