Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 21
But patience, and the growth of kindly feelings on both sides, helped me to some extent to overcome the shyness and reluctance of the simple folk who have supplied me with my material; and, as time went on, I was able to coax a story from many unlikely sources.
Who acts: patience, simple folk, I, feelings · What happens: help, overcome, supply, go on, be, coax · To what, where: me, shyness, story, many unlikely sources
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 (patience, simple folk, I, feelings), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 helped | cc |
| 2 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 helped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 growth | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 growth | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 growth | det |
| 6 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 patience | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feelings | case |
| 8 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 9 feelings | advmod |
| 9 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 growth | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 sides | case |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 sides | det |
| 12 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feelings | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 patience | punct |
| 14 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 helped | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 extent | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 extent | det |
| 18 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 helped | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 overcome | mark |
| 20 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 helped | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shyness | det |
| 22 | shyness | shyness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 overcome | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 reluctance | cc |
| 24 | reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shyness | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 folk | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 folk | det |
| 27 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 folk | amod |
| 28 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reluctance | nmod |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 supplied | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 supplied | aux |
| 31 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 folk | acl:relcl |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 supplied | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 material | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 material | nmod:poss |
| 35 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 supplied | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 able | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 able | cc |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 and | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 went | mark |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 went | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 able | advcl |
| 42 | on | on | ADV | _ | 41 went | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 went | punct |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 able | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 able | cop |
| 46 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 helped | conj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 coax | mark |
| 48 | coax | coax | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 able | xcomp |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 story | det |
| 50 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 coax | obj |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 sources | case |
| 52 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 sources | amod |
| 53 | unlikely | unlikely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 sources | amod |
| 54 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 coax | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | patience | me | to some extent | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | overcome | to-infinitive | patience not said here | the shyness and reluctance of the simple folk | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot shyness=Theme | ||||
| 3 | supply | present · perfect | the simple folk | me | with my material | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with material=Theme | |||
| 4 | go on | past | I not said here | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | coax | to-infinitive | I not said here | a story | many unlikely sources | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | |||
| 7 | grow | feelings on both sides | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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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