Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 26
Some of the stories, then, I have been obliged, reluctantly enough, to discard altogether for the present; others require further revision or elucidation.
Who acts: others · What happens: oblige, discard, require · To what, where: Some, further revision
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 (others), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 obliged | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 obliged | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 obliged | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 obliged | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 obliged | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 obliged | aux:pass |
| 11 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 enough | punct |
| 13 | reluctantly | reluctantly | ADV | _ | 14 enough | advmod |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 obliged | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 discard | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 discard | mark |
| 17 | discard | discard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 obliged | conj |
| 18 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 17 discard | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 present | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 present | det |
| 21 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 discard | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 require | punct |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 require | nsubj |
| 24 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 obliged | conj |
| 25 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 revision | amod |
| 26 | revision | revision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 require | obj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 elucidation | cc |
| 28 | elucidation | elucidation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 revision | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | present · perfect · passive | Some of the stories | then | I nsubj; enough property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | discard | to-infinitive | for the present; altogether property | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | require | present | others | further revision or elucidation | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme revision=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.
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