Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 25
Presently all sense of constraint is lost, and I have known a story interrupted for ten minutes at a time by the uncontrollable merriment aroused by some comic incident.
Who acts: I · What happens: lose, know, interrupt, arouse, sense · To what, where: sense, story, uncontrollable merriment, constraint
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 (I), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 sense | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sense | det |
| 3 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 constraint | case |
| 5 | constraint | constraint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sense | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | aux:pass |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 known | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 known | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 known | aux |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 lost | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | obj |
| 15 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 story | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 minutes | case |
| 17 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 minutes | nummod |
| 18 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 interrupted | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 interrupted | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 merriment | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 merriment | det |
| 24 | uncontrollable | uncontrollable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 merriment | amod |
| 25 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 interrupted | obl |
| 26 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 merriment | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 incident | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 incident | det |
| 29 | comic | comic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 incident | amod |
| 30 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 aroused | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · passive | all sense of constraint | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | know | present · perfect | I | a story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | interrupt | participle | a story not said here | minute; time | by the uncontrollable merriment | tree rules | |||
| 4 | arouse | participle | the uncontrollable merriment not said here | by some comic incident | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | sense | constraint | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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/pg75000/1/25/