Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 79
The Gryphon, with the young Man upon his back, flew straight in through the great golden gates, and deposited the youth in the centre of a vast courtyard round which were sitting numbers of gods, fairies and other denizens of the sky.
Who acts: Gryphon · What happens: fly, deposit, sit · To what, where: great golden gates, youth, centre, numbers
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 (Gryphon), 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 | 2 Gryphon | det |
| 2 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Man | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Man | amod |
| 7 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gryphon | conj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Man | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gryphon | punct |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 in | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 gates | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gates | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gates | amod |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gates | amod |
| 19 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 deposited | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 deposited | cc |
| 22 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 youth | det |
| 24 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deposited | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 centre | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 centre | det |
| 27 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deposited | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 courtyard | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 courtyard | det |
| 30 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 courtyard | amod |
| 31 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 centre | nmod |
| 32 | round | round | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 sitting | obl |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sitting | aux |
| 35 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 courtyard | acl |
| 36 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 sitting | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 gods | case |
| 38 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 numbers | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fairies | punct |
| 40 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 gods | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 denizens | cc |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 denizens | amod |
| 43 | denizens | denizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 gods | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 sky | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 sky | det |
| 46 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 denizens | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the Gryphon and the young Man upon youth's back | the great golden gates | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through gate=Location | ||||
| 2 | deposit | past | the Gryphon and the young Man upon youth's back not said here | the youth | the centre of a vast courtyard | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme in centre=Destination | |||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | numbers of gods and fairies and other denizens of the sky | round a vast courtyard | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location number=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.
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