Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 81
“How is it,” said they, “that you have dared, unordered, to bring into our presence an inhabitant of the human world?
Who acts: midst, you · What happens: be, say, dare, unorder, bring · To what, where: midst, inhabitant, presence · 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 (midst, you), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 it | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 unordered | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 unordered | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 dared | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 dared | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dared | aux |
| 14 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 unordered | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dared | punct |
| 16 | unordered | unorder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bring | mark |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 unordered | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 presence | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 presence | nmod:poss |
| 22 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obl |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 inhabitant | det |
| 24 | inhabitant | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 world | det |
| 27 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 world | amod |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 inhabitant | nmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | midst | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | midst | gods = god nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dare in a quote | present · perfect | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | unorder in a quote | participle | midst not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | midst not said here | a inhabitant of the human world | our presence | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme into presence=Destination |
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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