Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 2
The parents, although much grieved at their son’s deformity, were, nevertheless, very fond of him and brought him up very carefully.
Who acts: parents · What happens: grieve, be, bring up · To what, where: parents, deformity, child
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 (parents), 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 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fond | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grieved | punct |
| 4 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 6 grieved | mark |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 grieved | advmod |
| 6 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 parents | acl:relcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 deformity | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deformity | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 son | case |
| 11 | deformity | deformity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grieved | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 parents | punct |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fond | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fond | punct |
| 15 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 18 fond | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fond | punct |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 fond | advmod |
| 18 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fond | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fond | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 brought | compound:prt |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 carefully | advmod |
| 26 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 22 brought | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | participle | the parents not said here | parents's son's deformity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the parents | of child; fond, nevertheless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring up | past | the parents not said here | child | carefully property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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