Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 90
But she could now contain herself no longer, and, rushing forward, she threw herself into her husband’s arms, crying out that she loved him and would return with him to earth.
Who acts: wife · What happens: contain, rush, throw, cry out, love, return · To what, where: wife, arms, husband · 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 (wife), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 contain | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 contain | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 contain | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 contain | advmod |
| 5 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 contain | obj |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 contain | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rushing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rushing | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rushing | punct |
| 12 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 contain | parataxis |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 rushing | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | nsubj |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rushing | parataxis |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 threw | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 arms | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arms | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 husband | case |
| 22 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 threw | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 crying | punct |
| 24 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 threw | advcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 crying | compound:prt |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 loved | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 loved | nsubj |
| 28 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 crying | ccomp |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 loved | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 return | cc |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 return | aux |
| 32 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 loved | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 return | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 earth | case |
| 36 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 return | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | could | wife | wife | now | long property | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme | ||
| 2 | rush | gerund | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw | past | wife | wife | into wife's husband's arms result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herself=Theme into arm=Result | |||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | gerund | wife not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | love | past | wife | husband | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | return | would | wife not said here | with husband; to earth result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to earth=Result |
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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