Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 10
“Mother, it is now time for me to go and seek my own livelihood with my brothers in the forest.
Who acts: growth · What happens: be, go, seek · To what, where: time, own livelihood, Mother
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (growth), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 time | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | cop |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 time | advmod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mother | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 time | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seek | cc |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 livelihood | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 livelihood | amod |
| 16 | livelihood | livelihood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 brothers | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seek | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brothers | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | growth | time | now | for Peacock | tree rules | ||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | infinitive | my own livelihood | with my brothers in the forest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livelihood=Theme |
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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