Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 27
As they went across the lake the Tortoise began telling the Monkey about his wife’s illness, and in doing so he foolishly let out that the only medicine to cure her was a Monkey’s heart.
Who acts: Monkeys, Tortoise, only medicine · What happens: go, begin, tell, do, let out, cure · To what, where: lake, Monkey, friend, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Monkeys, Tortoise, only medicine), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | advcl |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tortoise | det |
| 8 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 began | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Monkey | det |
| 12 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 telling | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 illness | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 illness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 17 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 telling | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 let | cc |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 doing | mark |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 let | advcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 doing | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 let | nsubj |
| 24 | foolishly | foolishly | ADV | _ | 25 let | advmod |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | parataxis |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 let | compound:prt |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 heart | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 medicine | det |
| 29 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 medicine | amod |
| 30 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 heart | nsubj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 cure | mark |
| 32 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 medicine | acl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cure | obj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 heart | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 Monkey | det |
| 36 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 Monkey | case |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 let | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Monkeys = monkey | the lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across lake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Tortoise | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the Tortoise not said here | the Monkey | about Tortoise's wife's illness | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient about illness=Topic | |||
| 4 | do | gerund | Tortoise not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | let out | present | Tortoise | foolishly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | cure | to-infinitive | the only medicine not said here | friend | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | the only medicine | a Monkey's heart | a Monkey nmod:poss | 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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