Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 31
I have added to the stories a few verses taken at random from popular Tibetan love-songs, as a sample of the wealth of imagery and genuine poetic sentiment which is to be found amongst the inhabitants of this strange country.
Who acts: I · What happens: add, take, find, sample · To what, where: few verses, random, genuine poetic sentiment, wealth
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 added | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 added | aux |
| 3 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 stories | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 added | obl:agent |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 verses | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 verses | amod |
| 9 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 added | parataxis |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 verses | acl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 random | case |
| 12 | random | random | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 songs | case |
| 14 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 songs | amod |
| 15 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 songs | compound |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 songs | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 love | punct |
| 18 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taken | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sample | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 sample | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sample | det |
| 22 | sample | sample | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 songs | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wealth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wealth | det |
| 25 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sample | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 imagery | case |
| 27 | imagery | imagery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wealth | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sentiment | cc |
| 29 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sentiment | amod |
| 30 | poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sentiment | amod |
| 31 | sentiment | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 songs | conj |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 found | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 found | aux:pass |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 found | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 found | aux:pass |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sentiment | acl:relcl |
| 37 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 39 inhabitants | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 inhabitants | det |
| 39 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 found | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 country | case |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 country | det |
| 42 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 country | amod |
| 43 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 inhabitants | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · perfect | I | the stories obl:agent; a few verses parataxis | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | a few verses not said here | random | from popular Tibetan love songs and a sample of the wealth of imagery and genuine poetic sentiment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at random=Asset from song=Source | |||
| 3 | find | present · passive | genuine poetic sentiment | amongst the inhabitants of this strange country | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sample | the wealth of imagery | nom sample «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.
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