Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 41
It illustrates how the meanest Government clerk, more especially when armed with pen and paper, can strike terror into the heart of the boldest and strongest countryman.]
Who acts: story, meanest Government clerk · What happens: illustrate, strike · To what, where: terror, heart
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, meanest Government clerk), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 illustrates | nsubj |
| 2 | illustrates | illustrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 strike | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clerk | det |
| 5 | meanest | mean | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 clerk | amod |
| 6 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clerk | compound |
| 7 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strike | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 armed | punct |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 especially | advmod |
| 10 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 armed | advmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 armed | advmod |
| 12 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clerk | amod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pen | case |
| 14 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 armed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 paper | cc |
| 16 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pen | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 clerk | punct |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 strike | aux |
| 19 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 illustrates | ccomp |
| 20 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strike | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 heart | det |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strike | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 countryman | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 countryman | det |
| 26 | boldest | bold | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 countryman | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 strongest | cc |
| 28 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 boldest | conj |
| 29 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustrates | punct |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustrates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | illustrate | present | story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | strike | can | the meanest Government clerk | terror | into the heart of the boldest countryman result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent terror=Patient into heart=Result |
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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