Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 76
The young Man gladly assented to this proposition, and mounted on the Gryphon’s back; and the great bird, spreading his wings, soared upwards straight into the blue sky, carrying the youth with him.
Who acts: young Man, great bird · What happens: assent, mount, spread, soar, carry · To what, where: proposition, back, wings, blue sky, youth
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, great bird), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Man | amod |
| 3 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assented | nsubj |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 assented | advmod |
| 5 | assented | assent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 proposition | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 proposition | det |
| 8 | proposition | proposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mounted | cc |
| 11 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 proposition | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Gryphon | det |
| 14 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Gryphon | case |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mounted | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bird | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bird | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bird | amod |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assented | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spreading | punct |
| 23 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 bird | acl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wings | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spreading | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 soared | punct |
| 27 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 assented | conj |
| 28 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 27 soared | advmod |
| 29 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 33 sky | advmod |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 sky | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sky | det |
| 32 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sky | amod |
| 33 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 soared | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 carrying | punct |
| 35 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 soared | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 youth | det |
| 37 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 carrying | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 carrying | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 assented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assent | participle | the young Man | to this proposition; the great bird parataxis; gladly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mount | participle | this proposition not said here | the Gryphon's back | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination | ||||
| 3 | spread | gerund | the great bird not said here | bird's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | soar | past | the young Man not said here | the blue sky | upwards property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sky=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | carry | gerund | the young Man not said here | the youth | with youth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/76/