Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 32
And yet we proved ourselves able to do both.
Who acts: we · What happens: prove, do · To what, where: ourselves, both
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 proved | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 proved | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 proved | nsubj |
| 4 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 proved | obj |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 proved | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | we | ourselves | yet | able property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme | ||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | we not said here | both | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Eventuality |
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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