Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 22
Village headmen, monks, servants, local government officials, peasants, traders—these and many others have contributed to my store.
What happens: contribute · To what, where: Village headmen, store
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: 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 | Village | village | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 headmen | amod |
| 2 | headmen | headman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 contributed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 monks | punct |
| 4 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 headmen | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 servants | punct |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 headmen | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 officials | punct |
| 8 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 officials | amod |
| 9 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 officials | compound |
| 10 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 headmen | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 peasants | punct |
| 12 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 headmen | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 traders | punct |
| 14 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 headmen | conj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 these | punct |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 headmen | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 others | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 others | amod |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 headmen | conj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 contributed | aux |
| 21 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 store | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 store | nmod:poss |
| 24 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contributed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 contributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contribute | present · perfect · passive | Village headmen and monks and servants and local government officials and peasants and traders and many others | my store | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to store=Recipient |
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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