Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 29
As to their origin or scientific bearing I say nothing, and put forward no theories.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, put forward · To what, where: nothing, theories · 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 (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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 origin | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 origin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | obl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 bearing | cc |
| 6 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bearing | amod |
| 7 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 origin | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 say | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 say | advcl |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 put | advmod |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 theories | det |
| 16 | theories | theory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | I | nothing | as revision's origin or scientific bearing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 2 | put forward | participle | I not said here | no theories | forward property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent theory=Goal |
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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