Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 56
So saying she went over to the central glass pillar and, unscrewing a portion of it, she showed him a cavity inside, within which he concealed himself.
Who acts: skin, Prince · What happens: say, go over, unscrew, show, conceal · To what, where: portion, cavity, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (skin, Prince), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pillar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pillar | det |
| 8 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pillar | amod |
| 9 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pillar | compound |
| 10 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 unscrewing | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unscrewing | punct |
| 13 | unscrewing | unscrew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 portion | det |
| 15 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unscrewing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 portion | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 showed | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 showed | nsubj |
| 20 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 showed | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cavity | det |
| 23 | cavity | cavity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 showed | obj |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 20 showed | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 concealed | punct |
| 26 | within | within | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 concealed | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 concealed | nsubj |
| 29 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 showed | conj |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 concealed | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | skin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go over | past | skin | to the central glass pillar; over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | unscrew | gerund | skin not said here | a portion of portion | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | show | past | skin | a cavity | Prince | inside property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cavity=Topic | ||
| 5 | conceal | past | Prince | Prince | which obl | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
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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