Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 33

The pictures are the maiden effort at book illustration of a Tibetan artist, resident at Gyantse, and are, I fear, somewhat weak in details, as owing to my absence from Gyantse during the time they were in progress I was unable personally to superintend their execution.

Who acts: pictures, I, my · What happens: be, owe, superintend, illustrate, absent, execute · To what, where: maiden effort, book illustration, Gyantse, progress, execution, Tibetan artist

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 (pictures, I, my), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pictures	det
2	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 effort	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 effort	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 effort	det
5	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 effort	amod
6	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 illustration	case
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 illustration	compound
9	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 effort	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 artist	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 artist	det
12	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 artist	compound
13	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 illustration	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 resident	punct
15	resident	resident	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 effort	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 Gyantse	case
17	Gyantse	Gyantse	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 resident	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fear	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fear	cc
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 fear	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fear	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 fear	nsubj
23	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 effort	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 weak	punct
25	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	26 weak	advmod
26	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fear	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 details	case
28	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 weak	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 owing	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 owing	mark
31	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 weak	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 absence	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 absence	nmod:poss
34	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 owing	obl
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 Gyantse	case
36	Gyantse	Gyantse	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 owing	obl
37	during	during	ADP	_	39 time	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 progress	obl
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 progress	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 progress	cop
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 progress	case
43	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 owing	parataxis
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 unable	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 unable	cop
46	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 progress	conj
47	personally	personally	ADV	_	46 unable	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 superintend	mark
49	superintend	superintend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 unable	xcomp
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 execution	nmod:poss
51	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 superintend	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 effort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the pictures	the maiden effort and resident at Gyantse	book illustration of a Tibetan artist		resident at Gyantse conj	tree rules
2	is	present	I				fear property	tree rules
3	owe	gerund	I not said here		Gyantse		to my absence goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to absence=Goal
4	is	past	pictures = picture		progress	time		tree rules
5	is	past	I				personally, unable property	tree rules
6	superintend	to-infinitive	I not said here	pictures's execution				vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent execution=Theme
7	illustrate			a Tibetan artist				nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	absent		my					nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent
9	execute		pictures = picture					nom execution «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 33