Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 36

This boy is not an ordinary human child, but is the incarnation of a very holy Lama, with miraculous qualities, and he will from his birth be able to walk and talk.

Who acts: boy · What happens: not be, be, walk, talk · To what, where: ordinary human child, incarnation, birth

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 child	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 child	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 child	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
6	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 incarnation	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 incarnation	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 incarnation	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 incarnation	det
13	incarnation	incarnation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 child	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 Lama	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Lama	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 holy	advmod
17	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Lama	amod
18	Lama	Lama	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 incarnation	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 qualities	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 qualities	case
21	miraculous	miraculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 qualities	amod
22	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 child	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 able	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 able	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 able	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 able	aux
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 birth	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 birth	nmod:poss
29	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 able	obl
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	cop
31	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 walk	mark
33	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 talk	cc
35	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 walk	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	this boy	a ordinary human child but the incarnation and miraculous qualities		miraculous qualities conj	tree rules
2	is a	present	this boy not said here	the incarnation		of a holy Lama	tree rules
3	is	future	boy		boy's birth	able property	tree rules
4	walk	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	talk	infinitive	boy not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 36

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 36