Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 108
Raising his sword he rapped three times with the hilt on the wall, exclaiming each time as he did so, “Open, blank wall.”
Who acts: drop · What happens: raise, rap, exclaim, do · To what, where: sword, Open blank wall
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 (drop), 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 | Raising | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 wall | csubj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sword | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Raising | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rapped | nsubj |
| 5 | rapped | rap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sword | acl:relcl |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Raising | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 hilt | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hilt | det |
| 10 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Raising | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 wall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wall | det |
| 13 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hilt | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 exclaiming | punct |
| 15 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Raising | conj |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exclaiming | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 did | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 exclaiming | advcl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 did | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wall | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 wall | punct |
| 24 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wall | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Open | punct |
| 26 | blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wall | amod |
| 27 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 wall | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 wall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | gerund | drop's sword | time | with the hilt on the wall | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sword=Patient with hilt=Instrument | |||
| 2 | rap | past | drop | drop's sword not said here | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | time | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | past | drop | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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