Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 34
For the excellent photograph which appears as the frontispiece I am indebted to my friend and companion at Gyantse, Capt.
Who acts: excellent photograph, friend · What happens: appear, indebt · To what, where: I
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 (excellent photograph, friend), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 photograph | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 photograph | det |
| 3 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 photograph | amod |
| 4 | photograph | photograph | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 appears | nsubj |
| 6 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 photograph | acl:relcl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 frontispiece | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 frontispiece | det |
| 9 | frontispiece | frontispiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appears | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 indebted | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 indebted | aux:pass |
| 12 | indebted | indebt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 frontispiece | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 friend | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 indebted | obl:agent |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 companion | cc |
| 17 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 friend | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Gyantse | case |
| 19 | Gyantse | Gyantse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 friend | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Capt | punct |
| 21 | Capt | Capt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Gyantse | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 photograph | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the excellent photograph | as the frontispiece | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | indebt | present · passive | my friend at Gyantse and Capt and companion | I | tree rules |
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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