Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 74
“Yours,” said Father Gryphon, “is a very sad story, and in my opinion you have not been treated at all well; but if you desire it, I may perhaps be of some assistance to you.
Who acts: Yours, you, I, my · What happens: say, be, not treat, desire, opine · To what, where: sad story, you, opinion · 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 (Yours, you, I, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yours | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yours | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Father | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 story | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 story | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 story | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 sad | advmod |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 story | amod |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Father | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 treated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 treated | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 opinion | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 19 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 treated | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 treated | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 treated | advmod |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 treated | aux:pass |
| 24 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 treated | obl |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 treated | advmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 assistance | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 assistance | cc |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 desire | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 desire | nsubj |
| 32 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 assistance | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 desire | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 desire | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 assistance | nsubj |
| 36 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 assistance | aux |
| 37 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 41 assistance | advmod |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 assistance | cop |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 assistance | case |
| 40 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 assistance | det |
| 41 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 you | case |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 assistance | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Yours | Father nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a sad story | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not treat in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | my opinion | at all; well property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 4 | desire a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | opinion | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | may | I | you | of some assistance; perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | opine in a quote | my | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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