Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 63
No doubt it feels some sense of dignity and wishes to be distinguished from the remainder.
Who acts: doubt · What happens: feel, wish, distinguish, sense · To what, where: sense, dignity · 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 (doubt), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 doubt | det |
| 2 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feels | nsubj |
| 4 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 sense | det |
| 6 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feels | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dignity | case |
| 8 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sense | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wishes | cc |
| 10 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feels | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 distinguished | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 distinguished | aux:pass |
| 13 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wishes | ccomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 remainder | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 remainder | det |
| 16 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 distinguished | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | no doubt | some sense of dignity | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | no doubt not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | distinguish not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | from the remainder | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: from remainder=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | sense | dignity | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=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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