Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 60
There is not a scrap left to eat anywhere, and now nothing remains but for us to starve to death.”
Who acts: scrap, nothing, us · What happens: not be, leave, eat, remain, starve · To what, where: scrap
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 (scrap, nothing, us), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scrap | det |
| 5 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 scrap | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 left | advcl |
| 9 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 eat | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remains | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 remains | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 remains | advmod |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 remains | nsubj |
| 14 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 starve | cc |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 starve | mark |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 starve | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 starve | mark |
| 19 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 remains | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 starve | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | a scrap | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a scrap not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | anywhere property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | remain | present | nothing | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | starve | to-infinitive | us | to death | 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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