Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 47
The only food of which he partakes is men’s hearts, and this house is full of the lifeless bodies of his numerous victims.
Who acts: person, house · What happens: partake, be · To what, where: hearts, only food
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 (person, house), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 food | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 food | amod |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 partakes | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 partakes | nsubj |
| 7 | partakes | partake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 food | acl:relcl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 men | cop |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 men | case |
| 11 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 partakes | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 full | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 full | cc |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 full | cop |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 partakes | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bodies | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bodies | det |
| 20 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bodies | amod |
| 21 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 full | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 victims | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 victims | nmod:poss |
| 24 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 victims | amod |
| 25 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bodies | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 food | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | partake | present | person | men's hearts | of the only food | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | 's men | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | this house | of the lifeless bodies of person's numerous victims; full property | 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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