Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 61
“Look,” said she “at the position of the pillar.
What happens: look, say · 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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 position | nsubj |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 position | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 position | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 position | det |
| 10 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pillar | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pillar | det |
| 13 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 position | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the position Ogre of the pillar ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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