Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 80
When the gods saw that a human being had been deposited in their midst they rose in great wrath, and began bitterly to reproach the Gryphon for what he had done.
Who acts: gods, youth · What happens: see, deposit, rise, begin, reproach, do · To what, where: midst, great wrath, Gryphon · 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 (gods, youth), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gods | det |
| 3 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 deposited | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 human | det |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 deposited | parataxis |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 deposited | aux:pass |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 deposited | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 deposited | aux:pass |
| 11 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 midst | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 midst | nmod:poss |
| 14 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deposited | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 midst | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wrath | case |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wrath | amod |
| 19 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 23 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 22 began | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 reproach | mark |
| 25 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Gryphon | det |
| 27 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 reproach | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 what | case |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 reproach | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 done | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 done | aux |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 what | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the gods | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | deposit | gerund · perfect · passive | gods's midst | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in midst=Destination | |||||
| 3 | rise | past | gods = god | gods's midst not said here | great wrath | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location midst=Theme | |||
| 4 | begin | past | the gods not said here | bitterly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | reproach | to-infinitive | the gods not said here | the Gryphon | what obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent gryphon=Theme for what=Attribute | |||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | youth | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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