Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 54
“Oh, wife,” said he, “a terrible thing has happened to me.
Who acts: wife, terrible thing · What happens: say, happen · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, terrible thing), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 wife | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happened | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 happened | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | aux |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 happened | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife | Lion nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | present · perfect | a terrible thing | wife | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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