Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 85
“This young man,” said he, “is a valiant and kind-hearted youth.
Who acts: young man · What happens: say, be · To what, where: valiant youth · 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 (young man), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 youth | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 youth | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 youth | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 youth | det |
| 13 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 youth | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hearted | cc |
| 15 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hearted | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 kind | punct |
| 17 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 valiant | conj |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | this young man | monster nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a valiant youth | 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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