Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 10
At the same hour as on the previous day the Drake again appeared in the sky, and descending upon the lake, acted in precisely the same manner as before.
Who acts: Drake · What happens: appear, descend, act · To what, where: sky, same manner
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drake), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hour | amod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 appeared | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Drake | det |
| 11 | Drake | Drake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 appeared | advmod |
| 13 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 descending | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 descending | cc |
| 19 | descending | descend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 appeared | advcl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 lake | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lake | det |
| 22 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 descending | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 acted | punct |
| 24 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 descending | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 manner | case |
| 26 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 29 manner | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 manner | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 manner | amod |
| 29 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 acted | obl |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 before | case |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 acted | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the Drake | the sky | again; day; hour | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location | |||
| 2 | descend | gerund | the Drake not said here | upon the lake | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | act | participle | the same manner | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as before=Attribute |
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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