Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 68
Now this particular Ogre’s existence depends upon the life of a green Parrot, which is carefully hidden from human view, but I have ascertained where it is kept, and will explain to you how you may find it.
Who acts: this, particular existence, I, you · What happens: existence, depend, hide, ascertain, keep, explain · To what, where: green Parrot, human view, existence, you
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 (this, particular existence, I, you), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 existence | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 existence | nsubj |
| 3 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 existence | amod |
| 4 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 existence | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Ogre | case |
| 6 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depends | nsubj |
| 7 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 life | det |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depends | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Parrot | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Parrot | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Parrot | amod |
| 14 | Parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 life | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hidden | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hidden | aux:pass |
| 18 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 19 hidden | advmod |
| 19 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Parrot | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 view | case |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 view | amod |
| 22 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hidden | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ascertained | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 ascertained | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 ascertained | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ascertained | aux |
| 27 | ascertained | ascertain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 depends | conj |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 kept | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 kept | aux:pass |
| 31 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 ascertained | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 explain | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 explain | cc |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 explain | aux |
| 35 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 depends | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 you | case |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 explain | obl |
| 38 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 find | advmod |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 find | nsubj |
| 40 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 find | aux |
| 41 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 explain | advcl |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 find | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | existence | this | now | Ogre nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | depend | present | Ogre's particular existence | upon the life of a green Parrot | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hide | present · passive | a green Parrot | human view | carefully property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from view=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | ascertain | present · perfect | I | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | keep | present · passive | existence | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | explain speech: assert | future | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | find | may | you | existence | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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