Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 104
This boy is the Ogre’s mascot, and upon his existence depends the Ogre’s life in this world.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, depend, exist · To what, where: mascot, life, world
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mascot | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mascot | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ogre | det |
| 5 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mascot | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Ogre | case |
| 7 | mascot | mascot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 depends | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 depends | cc |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 existence | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 existence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 depends | obl |
| 13 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mascot | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ogre | det |
| 15 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Ogre | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 depends | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 depends | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mascot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this boy | the Ogre's mascot | the Ogre nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | depend | present | the Ogre's life | this world | upon boy's existence | tree rules | |||
| 3 | exist | boy | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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