Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 82
Do you not know that human beings are of a coarser essence than ourselves and are repugnant and abhorrent to us?
Who acts: you, human beings · What happens: not know, be · To what, where: us · 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 (you, human beings), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 essence | mark |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beings | amod |
| 7 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 essence | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 essence | cop |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 essence | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 essence | det |
| 11 | coarser | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 essence | amod |
| 12 | essence | essence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | ccomp |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 ourselves | case |
| 14 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 essence | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 repugnant | cc |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 repugnant | cop |
| 17 | repugnant | repugnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 know | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 abhorrent | cc |
| 19 | abhorrent | abhorrent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 repugnant | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 abhorrent | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | human beings | of a coarser essence; than ourselves | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you not said here | repugnant property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | you not said here | us | tree rules |
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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