Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 13
My friend, Brother Monkey, and I are just having a good time in the forest, and I will be home in a few days.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, be · To what, where: friend
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Monkey | punct |
| 4 | Brother | brother | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Monkey | amod |
| 5 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 friend | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 having | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 having | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 having | aux |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 having | advmod |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 friend | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 home | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 home | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 home | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 home | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 home | cop |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 having | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 days | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 days | det |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 days | amod |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 home | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · progressive | I | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | future | I | day | home 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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