Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 52
There must be something wrong,” and saying this he again called out:
Who acts: something · What happens: be, say, call out · To what, where: this · 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 (something), 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 | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wrong | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saying | cc |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wrong | conj |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 called | advmod |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 called | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | something | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | something not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert in a quote | participle · passive | this | again | Tortoise nsubj | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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