Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 86
He saved my young ones from destruction by attacking, single-handed, and killing a Dragon who was on the point of devouring them.
Who acts: monster, point · What happens: save, attack, hand, kill, be, devour · To what, where: young ones, destruction, Dragon, point, man
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 (monster, point), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ones | nmod:poss |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ones | amod |
| 5 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saved | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 destruction | case |
| 7 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saved | obl |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 attacking | mark |
| 9 | attacking | attack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saved | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 handed | punct |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 handed | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 single | punct |
| 13 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 attacking | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 point | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 point | cc |
| 16 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 point | csubj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Dragon | det |
| 18 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 killing | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 point | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 point | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 point | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 point | det |
| 23 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saved | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 devouring | mark |
| 25 | devouring | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 point | acl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 devouring | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | monster | my young ones | destruction | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from destruction=Source | |||
| 2 | attack | gerund | monster not said here | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hand | participle | monster not said here | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kill | gerund | a Dragon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the point | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | devour | gerund | the point not said here | man | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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