Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 23
Shyly and haltingly at starting, with many bashful apologies and disclaimers, the story-teller will begin his tale.
Who acts: story teller, folk · What happens: start, begin, tell · To what, where: tale · 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 (story teller, folk), 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 | Shyly | shyly | ADV | _ | 5 starting | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 starting | cc |
| 3 | haltingly | haltingly | ADV | _ | 5 starting | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 starting | mark |
| 5 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 starting | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 apologies | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 apologies | amod |
| 9 | bashful | bashful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 apologies | amod |
| 10 | apologies | apology | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 begin | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 disclaimers | cc |
| 12 | disclaimers | disclaimer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 apologies | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 apologies | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 teller | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 teller | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 story | punct |
| 17 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 begin | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 begin | aux |
| 19 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 starting | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tale | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 begin | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 starting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | haltingly, shyly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | begin | future | the story teller | folk's tale | with many bashful apologies and disclaimers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality with apology=Subeventuality | |||
| 3 | tell | folk | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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