Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 58
Half distracted with grief and chagrin, the young Man ran frantically across the country, thinking to find some trace of his lost happiness.
Who acts: young Man · What happens: distract, run, think, find, lose · To what, where: country, trace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young Man), 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 | Half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 distracted | advmod |
| 2 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ran | advcl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 grief | case |
| 4 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 distracted | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chagrin | cc |
| 6 | chagrin | chagrin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grief | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 distracted | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Man | amod |
| 10 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | frantically | frantically | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thinking | punct |
| 17 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thinking | ccomp |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 trace | det |
| 21 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 happiness | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 happiness | amod |
| 25 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trace | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distract | participle | the young Man not said here | with grief and chagrin; half property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the young Man | the country | frantically property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across country=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | the young Man not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | some trace of word's lost happiness | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic | |||||
| 5 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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