Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 61
At first he was unable to detect what sort of birds these were, but after examining them attentively for some time he saw that they were three young Gryphons, whose parents apparently had gone off in search of food.
Who acts: word, sort, daughters · What happens: be, detect, examine, see, go off, sort · To what, where: daughters, three young Gryphons, search, birds, food · 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 (word, sort, daughters), 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 | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 unable | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 unable | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unable | cop |
| 5 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 detect | mark |
| 7 | detect | detect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unable | xcomp |
| 8 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 9 sort | det |
| 9 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 were | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sort | nmod |
| 12 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 sort | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 detect | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 examining | mark |
| 17 | examining | examine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 saw | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 examining | obj |
| 19 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 17 examining | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unable | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 gone | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 Gryphons | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 Gryphons | cop |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 Gryphons | nummod |
| 29 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Gryphons | amod |
| 30 | Gryphons | gryphon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 gone | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 parents | punct |
| 32 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 33 parents | nmod:poss |
| 33 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Gryphons | conj |
| 34 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 36 gone | advmod |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 gone | aux |
| 36 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 saw | ccomp |
| 37 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 gone | compound:prt |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 search | case |
| 39 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gone | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 food | case |
| 41 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 search | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | word | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | detect | to-infinitive | word not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | what sort of birds these | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | examine | gerund | word not said here | daughters = daughter | attentively property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | past | word | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | daughters = daughter | three young Gryphons and three young Gryphons and three young Gryphons's parents's parents | three young Gryphons and three young Gryphons and parents's parents's parents conj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | go off | past · perfect | search of food | apparently property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 8 | sort | birds | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | search | food | nom search «act 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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