Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 28
I have written them down just as I heard them, and have translated them, as accurately as I could, from the Tibetan idiom into ours.
Who acts: I · What happens: write down, hear, translate · To what, where: 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 written | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | aux |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 written | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 written | compound:prt |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 heard | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 heard | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 translated | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 translated | cc |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 translated | aux |
| 14 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 written | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 translated | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 accurately | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 accurately | advmod |
| 18 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 14 translated | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 could | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 accurately | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 idiom | punct |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 idiom | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 idiom | det |
| 25 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 idiom | compound |
| 26 | idiom | idiom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 translated | parataxis |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 ours | case |
| 28 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 idiom | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | present · perfect | I | revision | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | I | revision | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | translate | infinitive · perfect | I not said here | revision | the Tibetan idiom into ours parataxis; accurately property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.
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