Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 20
It is my habit every day to descend to this lake in the form of a white Drake, and to amuse myself by swimming round and round.
Who acts: region · What happens: be, descend, amuse, swim, form · To what, where: habit, lake, myself, white Drake
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 (region), 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 | 4 habit | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 habit | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 habit | nmod:poss |
| 4 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 habit | appos |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 descend | mark |
| 8 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 day | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descend | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 form | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 form | det |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lake | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Drake | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Drake | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Drake | amod |
| 18 | Drake | drake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 form | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 amuse | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 amuse | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 amuse | mark |
| 22 | amuse | amuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 habit | parataxis |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 amuse | obj |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 swimming | mark |
| 25 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 amuse | advcl |
| 26 | round | round | ADV | _ | 25 swimming | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 round | cc |
| 28 | round | round | ADV | _ | 26 round | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 habit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | region | my habit | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | descend | to-infinitive | region not said here | this lake in the form of a white Drake | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to lake=Location | ||||
| 3 | amuse | to-infinitive | myself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | swim | gerund | round property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | form | a white Drake | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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