Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 64
For some time the issue was doubtful, but the young man at length succeeded with one well-delivered blow in severing the Dragon’s head from its neck, and the monster fell dead upon the beach.
Who acts: issue, young man, monster · What happens: be, succeed, deliver, sever, fall · To what, where: head, neck, beach
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 (issue, young man, monster), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doubtful | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 issue | det |
| 5 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doubtful | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 doubtful | cop |
| 7 | doubtful | doubtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 succeeded | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 succeeded | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 succeeded | nsubj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 length | case |
| 14 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | nmod |
| 15 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 doubtful | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 blow | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 blow | nummod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 delivered | advmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 well | punct |
| 20 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 blow | amod |
| 21 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 succeeded | obl |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 severing | mark |
| 23 | severing | sever | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 succeeded | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Dragon | det |
| 25 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Dragon | case |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 severing | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 neck | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 neck | nmod:poss |
| 30 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 severing | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fell | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fell | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 monster | det |
| 34 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fell | nsubj |
| 35 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 doubtful | conj |
| 36 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 fell | xcomp |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 beach | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 beach | det |
| 39 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fell | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 doubtful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the issue | time | doubtful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | succeed | past | the young man at length | with one delivered blow | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | deliver | participle | well property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sever | gerund | the young man at length not said here | the Dragon's head | Dragon's neck | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme from neck=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | fall | past | the monster | the beach | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon beach=Location |
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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